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{"bill_id":1044846,"bill_number":"HB42","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gaming.","description":"Propose to amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define and permit casino gaming; prior to July 1, 2029, require that proceeds be used to pay for oversight of casino gaming, and mandate that 100 percent of proceeds in excess of oversight costs go to retirement systems; after July 1, 2029, allow the General Assembly to allocate proceeds.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB42/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB42.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1044847,"bill_number":"SR12","title":"Honor Julia Pile upon receiving the inaugural Beverly Nickell Raimondo Leadership Award.","description":"Honor Julia Pile upon receiving the inaugural Beverly Nickell Raimondo Leadership Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR12/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR12.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044848,"bill_number":"HJR14","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 1780 in Leslie County in honor and memory of World War II veteran Cpl. Edward Caldwell.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 1780 in Leslie County in honor and memory of World War II veteran Cpl. Edward Caldwell.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR14/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR14.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1044849,"bill_number":"SB29","title":"AN ACT relating to tobacco-related illnesses and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 205.510 to 205.560 to establish the Medicaid tobacco-related illness reimbursement fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 212 to establish the county tobacco cessation fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 212 to provide a minimum smoke-free ordinance for counties to receive money from the county tobacco cessation fund; amend KRS 138.140 to impose a healthcare reimbursement assessment on cigarettes and other tobacco products, including e-cigarettes; amend KRS 138.130 to update definitions for chapter, including adding e-cigarettes to definition of tobacco products; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB29/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB29.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1044850,"bill_number":"HB64","title":"AN ACT relating to traumatic brain injury treatment for veterans.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit eligible veterans to use hyperbaric oxygen treatment for treatment of traumatic brain injury; establish the conditions for use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment; prohibit sanctions of health care providers; clarify the duties of health care insurers regarding hyperbaric oxygen treatment; prohibit certain actions by state officials; provide that the Act may be known as the Colonel Ron Ray Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 14)","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB64/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB64.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":1044851,"bill_number":"HB106","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 150.175 to allow volunteer firefighters to be issued a combination hunting and fishing license free of charge and set qualifications and conditions of validity for license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB106/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB106.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1044852,"bill_number":"HJR12","title":"Jan 11-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 11-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR12/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR12.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1044853,"bill_number":"SR2","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the Senate.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR2/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR2.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1044854,"bill_number":"HB76","title":"AN ACT relating to the taking of the sense of the people of the Commonwealth as to the necessity and expediency of calling a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Kentucky, and the amendments that may have been made to it, as provided by Section 258 of the Constitution of Kentucky.","description":"Propose to take the sense of the people of Kentucky regarding the calling of a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Kentucky, as provided by Section 258 of the present Constitution.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB76/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB76.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1044855,"bill_number":"SB33","title":"AN ACT relating to the security of personal information and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach pursuant to the Act and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; to prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide five years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.730 to extend definitions to KRS 365.732; to conform the definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; amend KRS 365.732 to define \"encrypt\" and \"security breach\"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and email accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request for three consumer reports from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to exempt certain persons from the definition of \"nonaffiliated third parties\"; conform the definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, KRS 61.933, 61.934,171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB33/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB33.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1044856,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky.","description":"Propose amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and to provide a uniform statute of limitations; provide for submission to the voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB2.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1044857,"bill_number":"SB37","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's licenses for certain inmates and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 186.417 and 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to allow the issuance of operator's licenses to current federal and state inmates who are engaged in work release programs or reentry initiatives; set forth minimum components of the regulation; make technical corrections; amend KRS 186.412 to include federal prisoners under current provisions allowing state prisoners to receive operator's licenses and personal ID cards upon release; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 74)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB37/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB37.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1044858,"bill_number":"HB90","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for airport noise mitigation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for the costs of mitigating noise from a commercial airport for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2022; amend KRS 131.190 to require certain information to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various sections in the Kentucky Revised Statutes to make conforming changes; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB90/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB90.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1044859,"bill_number":"HB77","title":"AN ACT relating to trespass.","description":"Amend KRS 511.070 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property; require any owner or lessee who marks his or her real property in such a manner to also provide clear written notice forbidding entry.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"3rd reading, defeated 39-50","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB77/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB77.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1044861,"bill_number":"SB32","title":"AN ACT relating to educational programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop academic standards for a financial literacy program to be implemented by each public high school; require the financial literacy program to be completed for high school graduation; direct the department to determine the implementation date.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB32/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB32.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1044862,"bill_number":"HB73","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, and to prevent members of the House of Representatives from serving more than six consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, beginning with those elected in November 2018; allow legislators to resume service in the house from which they were term-limited after two or more years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB73/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB73.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1044863,"bill_number":"SR26","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Alta Jean Chapman","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Alta Jean Chapman","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR26/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR26.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1044864,"bill_number":"HB10","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly or an agency or committee it creates to review, approve, or disapprove any administrative regulation of the executive branch during or between regular sessions of the General Assembly; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval; supply ballot language.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB10/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB10.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1044865,"bill_number":"SR19","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edgar Smith Burton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edgar Smith Burton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR19/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR19.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1044866,"bill_number":"HB101","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 510.020 to state that a 16 or 17-year old is incapable of consent when the actor is 28 years old or more; amend KRS 510.030 to add lack of knowledge of the victim's age being 16 or 17 when the offender was at least 28 years old at the time of the offense as a defense; amend KRS 510.060 to add to rape in the third degree a person who is 28 years old or more that has sexual intercourse with a 16 or 17-year old; amend KRS 510.090 to add to sodomy in the third degree a person who is 28 years old or more that has deviate sexual intercourse with a 16 or 17-year old; provide that this Act may be cited as Jenna's Law.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 43)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB101/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB101.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1044867,"bill_number":"HJR20","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a roadway in Campbell County in honor of SMSgt Jeremy Nelson and erect appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a roadway in Campbell County in honor of SMSgt Jeremy Nelson and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR20/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR20.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1044868,"bill_number":"HB108","title":"AN ACT relating to school employees and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to remove aunt, uncle, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law from the definition of \"relative\" for purposes of employment; remove obsolete language regarding the employment of board member relatives; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Rules (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB108/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB108.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1044869,"bill_number":"SB44","title":"AN ACT relating to reemployment of retirees with county police departments.","description":"Amend KRS 70.292 to allow county police departments the ability to employ retired police officers from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS), County Employees Retirement System (CERS), and State Police Retirement System (SPRS) provided they meet certain standards; amend KRS 70.293 to provide that KERS, CERS, and SPRS retirees reemployed by a county police department will continue to receive the benefits they were eligible to receive upon retirement but shall not accrue any additional retirement or health benefits during reemployment; provide that retirement and any health contributions shall not be paid to the Kentucky Retirement Systems or the Kentucky Employees Health Plan on a retired officer who is reemployed by a county police department under these provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB44/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB44.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1044870,"bill_number":"HB72","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 state fiscal measure, including an appropriation or revenue-raising measure, voted upon in the Senate or House of Representatives or a committee thereof; require identification of any state fiscal measure by the director of the Legislative Research Commission, or upon a determination by the Senate or House of Representatives or a committee of either; require separate votes for any state fiscal measure.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB72/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB72.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1044871,"bill_number":"SR23","title":"Memorialize Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens.","description":"Memorialize Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR23/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR23.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1044872,"bill_number":"HB21","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky school bus drivers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate and observe May 1 of every year as \"School Bus Driver Day.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB21/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB21.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1044873,"bill_number":"HR4","title":"Appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor.","description":"Appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR4/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR4.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1044875,"bill_number":"HB29","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, disallow the domestic production activities deduction, establish a cap for itemized deductions, and define \"taxpayer\"; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates; amend KRS 141.066 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize and order changes in income tax credits; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the exclusion threshold; amend KRS 141.120 to change apportionment methods to use a \"throwback\" rule and market-based sourcing for receipts; amend KRS 141.200 to require \"combined\" reporting for corporations; amend KRS 134.810, 136.310, 136.530, 141.040, 141.121, 141.206, and 141.420 to conform; amend KRS 141.205 to recognize \"tax haven\" foreign countries and tax all income apportioned or allocated to those countries; 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 138.270 to reduce motor fuels dealer compensation to one percent; 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 provisions; amend KRS 132.260 to clarify requirements for reporting of rental space for mobile or manufactured homes, private aircraft, and certain boats or vessels; amend KRS 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, and 132.815 to clarify property tax treatment of manufactured homes; amend KRS 140.300 to clarify the treatment of agricultural valuation on inherited property; 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, 139.340, and 139.740 to impose sales tax on selected services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide for a refundable Kentucky earned income tax credit; amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.990 to recognize changes in the distilled spirits case tax; amend KRS 138.130, 138.140, and 138.143 to change the tax on cigarette rolling papers, to raise the tobacco taxes, to impose a floor stock tax, and to tax e-cigarettes; amend KRS 65.125, 65.674, 67.862, 67.938, 67A.843, 68.245, 68.248, 82.095, 97.590, 132.0225, 132.023, 132.024, 132.027, 132.029, 157.440, 160.470, 160.473, 67C.147, 78.530, 342.340, and 134.810 to remove provisions that allow for recall of certain tax rates and make conforming and technical changes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide for a refundable noise mitigation credit; repeal KRS 132.017, 132.018, 132.025, 132.720, 143A.035, and 243.710, relating to recall petitions and to various tax rates; provide that estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2018, sales tax provisions are effective for periods beginning on or after October 1, 2018, motor fuels compensation provisions are effective August 1, 2018, and property tax provisions are for assessments on and after January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB29/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB29.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1044876,"bill_number":"SR8","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vivian Stewart Cartmell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vivian Stewart Cartmell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR8/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR8.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044877,"bill_number":"SB35","title":"AN ACT relating to an exemption for wage and hours.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to include employees of amusement and recreational facilities that are open for no more than seven months in a year in the exemptions relating to wages and hours, bringing Kentucky's laws in line with the federal exemptions.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"floor amendments (4), and (5) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendments (3) and (6) filed","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB35/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB35.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044878,"bill_number":"HB38","title":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB38/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB38.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1044879,"bill_number":"SB18","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal justice services for veterans.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A, relating to the Court of Justice, to require the Supreme Court to administer a veterans treatment court program; amend KRS 533.015 to include veterans treatment court in alternative sentencing options; amend KRS 431.515, relating to pretrial services for veterans, to remove the combat requirement, establish rules for contacting Veterans Justice Outreach programs, and require pretrial officers to provide contact information for veterans treatment courts and the Veterans Justice Outreach program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB18/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB18.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1044880,"bill_number":"SB11","title":"AN ACT relating to telecommunications.","description":"Amend KRS 278.5461 to include a definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; amend KRS 278.5462 to provide that no telecommunications or Internet service provider shall collect personally identifiable information from a customer as a result of the customer's use of the telecommunications or Internet services without the customer's express written approval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB11/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB11.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1044881,"bill_number":"HJR19","title":"Designate May 1 of every year as \"School Bus Driver Day\" in Kentucky.","description":"Designate May 1 of every year as \"School Bus Driver Day\" in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR19/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR19.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1044882,"bill_number":"HB104","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's license testing.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that a driver's education program to include instruction regarding a driver's conduct during interactions with law enforecement officers; amend KRS 186.480 to require the Kentucky State Police to make a Driver Manual available in printed or electronic format that contains the information needed for an operator's license examination; require that the manual have a section regarding a driver's conduct during interactions with law enforcement officers; require that the operator's license examination includes the driver's knowledge regarding conduct during interactions with law enforcement officers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 332 to require driver training schools to include in the course of instruction for new drivers information on how a driver should act during interactions with law enforcement officers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB104/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB104.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1044883,"bill_number":"SR9","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR9/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR9.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1044884,"bill_number":"HB37","title":"AN ACT relating to speech-language pathologists or audiologists, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 157.397 to require local boards of education to provide an annual salary supplement to qualified speech-language pathologists or audiologists; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB37/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB37.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1044885,"bill_number":"HB30","title":"AN ACT relating to suicide prevention training.","description":"Amend KRS 156.095 to require two hours of in-person suicide prevention professional development training every other school year for middle and high school principals, guidance counselors, and teachers; require a newly hired staff member to receive a packet of information on suicide prevention when the person is hired in a year training is not provided; amend KRS 158.070 to delete requirement for two hours of self-study review for suicide prevention training.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 53)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB30/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB30.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1044886,"bill_number":"SB27","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow an individual who becomes a member of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of the Act to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly; allow an individual who has not yet met the requirements for vesting to make a one-time irrevocable election within 60 days of the effective date of this Act to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of his or her accumulated account balance; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System shall apply to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, 61.525, 61.535, and 61.625 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB27/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB27.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1044887,"bill_number":"HB84","title":"AN ACT relating to organ donation.","description":"Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or body part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act may be known as Courtney's Law.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 5)","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB84/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB84.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1044888,"bill_number":"SR28","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vernon \"Chick\" Johnson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vernon \"Chick\" Johnson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR28/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR28.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1044889,"bill_number":"HB98","title":"AN ACT relating to consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 67C.103 to require a special election within 60 days of a vacancy being declared; allow government council to reimburse clerk for election expenses.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB98/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB98.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1044890,"bill_number":"HB53","title":"AN ACT relating to public protests.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a Class A misdemeanor, disruption of a public protest, for a person who wears a mask or hood concealing his or her face while engaging in a public protest; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a Class A misdemeanor, obstruction of traffic; abolish criminal or civil liability for a motor vehicle operator who causes injury or death to a person obstructing the flow of traffic during a public demonstration for which a permit has not been granted, unless the infliction of injury or death is intentional; create a new section of KRS Chapter 522 to prohibit any person, including a public servant, from preventing a peace officer from performing official duties at a protest.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB53/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB53.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1044891,"bill_number":"HB55","title":"AN ACT relating to drug education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require physical and health education instruction in drug abuse prevention and the connection between abuse and addiction to other drugs; require the Office of Drug Control Policy to develop recommendations for the instruction in drug abuse prevention to be published on the Web site of the Department of Education.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB55/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB55.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1044892,"bill_number":"SB14","title":"AN ACT relating to voting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to allow in-person early voting between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the three Saturdays preeceding any primary, regular election, or special election; amend KRS 117.087, 117.165, 117.235, and 117.995 to conform; amend KRS 118.035 to conform and to also extend voting hours for election day voting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB14/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB14.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1044893,"bill_number":"HB22","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety.","description":"Amend KRS 446.010 to define \"unmanned aircraft system\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to prescribe permitted and prohibited uses of drones; provide exceptions; prohibit use of evidence obtained by a drone in violation of stated prohibitions; authorize that section to be cited as the \"Citizens' Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 501 to clarify criminal liability for offenses committed using a drone; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of obstructing an emergency responder.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-03-24","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 26)","last_action_date":"2018-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB22/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB22.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1044894,"bill_number":"HB99","title":"AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by a home-schooled student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of a home-schooled student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters a home school program ineligible for participation in an interscholastic activity for the remainder of the school year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB99/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB99.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":1044895,"bill_number":"HCR7","title":"Urge the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to issue more migratory bird depredation permits and subpermits to allow Kentucky farmers to legally take black vultures that are depredating their livestock.","description":"Urge the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to issue more migratory bird depredation permits and subpermits to allow Kentucky farmers to legally take black vultures that are depredating their livestock.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 126)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR7/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR7.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1044896,"bill_number":"HB23","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 Statistics in even-numbered years, every four years, beginning in 2024; provide transitional calendar; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection; provide ballot language.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB23/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB23.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1044897,"bill_number":"HB71","title":"AN ACT relating to distribution of sexually explicit images without the consent of the person depicted.","description":"Amend KRS 531.010 to define \"private erotic matter\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to prohibit the distribution of sexually explicit images without consent; make such distribution a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class D felony for the second or subsequent offense, unless it is done for profit, in which case it is a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for the second or subsequent offense.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 50)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB71/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB71.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1044898,"bill_number":"SB48","title":"AN ACT relating to child marriage.","description":"Amend KRS 402.020 to establish a new minimum age for marriage; amend KRS 402.030 to establish the power of courts to declare a marriage void when one party is under 18 years of age; amend KRS 402.210 to prohibit individuals under the age of 17 years from marrying; establish the process for a 17- year old to petition a court for permission to marry and the criteria for granting the petition; repeal KRS 402.260 which provides for the estate of minors who marry to be placed in receivership until they reach the age of 18 years.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 36)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB48/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB48.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1044899,"bill_number":"HB110","title":"AN ACT relating to the exploitation of adults.","description":"Amend KRS 209.020 to change the definition of \"exploitation\" to include obtaining or using controlled substances prescribed to a vulnerable adult or a member of the adult's household; amend KRS 209.990 to create a Class C felony for that form of exploitation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB110/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB110.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1044900,"bill_number":"SB9","title":"AN ACT relating to TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 96.895 to require that a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in-lieu-of-tax revenue deposited in the general fund be distributed to agencies designated by counties that have TVA property located in that county or purchase power from TVA, increasing from 0% currently to 50% or a maximum of $6,000,000; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB9/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB9.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1044902,"bill_number":"SB38","title":"AN ACT relating to pregnancy-related discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of \"reasonable accommodation,\" accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; define \"related medical condition\"; amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful for an employer to fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding the right to be free from discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB38/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB38.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1044903,"bill_number":"SB21","title":"AN ACT relating to sign language interpretation in the House and Senate chambers.","description":"Amend KRS 7.100 to require the Legislative Research Commission to provide sign language interpretation in each chamber of the General Assembly whenever the General Assembly is in session.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB21/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB21.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1044904,"bill_number":"HB60","title":"AN ACT relating to life imprisonment for persistent felony offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 to increase the sentence to life without the possiblity of parole for offenders with three or more independent convictions for Class A or B felonies or capital offenses.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB60/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB60.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":1044905,"bill_number":"HB24","title":"AN ACT relating to railroads.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require two-person crews on trains or light engines used in connection with the movement of freight; establish civil penalties for failure to have a two-person crew.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB24/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB24.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1044906,"bill_number":"HB103","title":"AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 311.727 to require a physician or qualified technician to provide a written medical description of images depicted during a required ultrasound prior to an abortion; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB103/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB103.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1044907,"bill_number":"HB68","title":"AN ACT relating to law enforcement support programs, declaring an emergency, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to provide a law enforcement professional development and wellness program; outline standards for program; require program to be confidential; create a fund for the program's administration; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 104)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB68/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB68.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1044908,"bill_number":"SB36","title":"AN ACT relating to opportunities in education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a separate income tax credit for tuition assistance based on contributions made to a qualified scholarship-granting organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide goals and reporting of metrics related to those goals; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credits may be taken; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to allow financial institutions to take the tax credit against the tax imposed by KRS 136.505; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to order all tax credits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to publish a list of certified nonpublic schools and nonpublic schools seeking certification; require the Department of Revenue to report information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190, 131.135, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, 141.389, and 131.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB36/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB36.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1044909,"bill_number":"HB86","title":"AN ACT relating to naming of publicly funded assets and programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit naming of publicly funded assets and programs after elected officials and their immediate families until the sooner of 20 years after the official leaves office or 10 years after the death of the official.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB86/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB86.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1044910,"bill_number":"HB83","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 532.090 to establish gross misdemeanors as a new category of misdemeanor offense and set penalty range; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 500, 530, 532, and 533 to conform; amend KRS 532.100 to ensure that custody of gross misdemeanants parallels that of Class D felons; repeal KRS 431.060; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB83/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB83.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1044911,"bill_number":"HB87","title":"AN ACT relating to annexation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 81A to allow standing to any person who owns property in a territory to file suit against a city that annexes the territory; retroactive to January 1, 2004; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB87/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB87.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1044912,"bill_number":"SB40","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky increasing the homestead exemption from the current inflation-adjusted amount of $37,600 to the full assessed value of the property for owners with a permanent and total one hundred percent service-connected disability rating by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; make the exemption transferrable upon the veteran's death to the surviving spouse; add the continued biennial inflation indexing of the homestead exemption amount; make various typographical changes of a nonsubstantive nature; state ballot question; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB40/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB40.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1044913,"bill_number":"HB36","title":"AN ACT relating to carrying concealed weapons.","description":"Create a new section of Chapter 237 to allow concealed deadly weapons to be carried without a license in same locations as concealed carry license holders may carry them; amend KRS 237.115 and 527.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB36/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB36.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1044915,"bill_number":"HB25","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of child abuse, neglect, or dependency.","description":"Amend KRS 620.030 to establish that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is dependent, neglected, or abused, causes an oral or written report of the dependency, neglect, or abuse to be made, is employed by a local law enforcement agency, the Department of Kentucky State Police, the cabinet or its designated representative, the Commonwealth's attorney, or a county attorney, then that person shall make the oral or written report to his or her employer and to one of the other entities authorized to receive the report.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB25/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB25.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1044916,"bill_number":"SR34","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of former Kentucky State Representative Louis Johnson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of former Kentucky State Representative Louis Johnson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR34/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR34.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1044917,"bill_number":"HB50","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational licensing regulations.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 12 to define terms; set forth requirements for all occupational licensing regulations established by an agency on or after November 15, 2018; require each agency to conduct a comprehensive review of all occupational licensing regulations under its jurisdiction every five years and to prepare and submit a report of its review to the Legislative Research Commission; establish a process to petition an agency to repeal or modify an occupational licensing regulation; allow a petitioner to appeal an agency's actions or inaction to Circuit Court.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB50/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB50.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1044918,"bill_number":"HB34","title":"AN ACT relating to electric utility billing.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to place a cap on the amount that an electric utility can bill for a basic service charge.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB34/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB34.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1044919,"bill_number":"HB40","title":"AN ACT relating to a day of prayer for students.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 designating the last Wednesday in September of each year as A Day of Prayer for Kentucky's Students.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB40/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB40.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1044920,"bill_number":"HB102","title":"AN ACT relating to arrests.","description":"Amend KRS 431.015 to allow a peace officer to make an arrest when a misdemeanor is committed in the officer's presence; allow a peace officer to issue a citation when the officer has probable cause to believe that a misdemeanor was committed outside of his or her presence.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB102/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB102.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":1044921,"bill_number":"SB4","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 Statistics in even-numbered years, every four years, beginning in 2024; provide transitional calendar; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection. Provide ballot language.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB4/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB4.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1044922,"bill_number":"SB26","title":"AN ACT relating to notification of the expiration date of an instruction permit, operator's license, or personal identification card.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to notify holders of operator's licenses, instruction permits, and personal ID cards of the impending expiration of these documents 45 days prior to their expiration; allow notice by electronic or postal mail; allow license, permit, and ID card holders to provide electronic mail addresses for notification or opt out of notification; clarify that nonreceipt of a notice shall not constitute a defense to any offense regarding an expired permit or license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB26/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB26.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1044923,"bill_number":"HJR22","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Molly Matney by placing signs declaring Metcalfe County as the \"Home of Molly Matney, 2017 Miss Kentucky.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Molly Matney by placing signs declaring Metcalfe County as the \"Home of Molly Matney, 2017 Miss Kentucky.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR22/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR22.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1044924,"bill_number":"HB44","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the election of appellate judges.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky to fill terms of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals by appointment by the Governor from a list of three nominees provided by the judicial nominating commission; provide for appointed justices and judges who seek additional terms to stand for elections in their districts; limit individuals to two full terms of office; schedule transitional provisions; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"reassigned to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB44/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB44.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1044925,"bill_number":"SR32","title":"Recognize John Tackett as the Pickleball Ambassador of Kentucky.","description":"Recognize John Tackett as the Pickleball Ambassador of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR32/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR32.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1044926,"bill_number":"SB5","title":"AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefits in the Medicaid program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to directly administer all outpatient pharmacy benefits; prohibit renewal or negotiation of new contracts to provide Medicaid managed care that allow administration of outpatient benefits by any entity but the Department for Medicaid Services; reduce costs of future Medicaid managed care contracts by costs of all outpatient pharmacy benefits as they existed on January 1, 2017; allow the department to utilize managed care principles and techniques to assist with member medication adherence and cost control; require the department to establish a reasonable dispensing fee pursuant to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 157)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB5/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB5.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1044927,"bill_number":"HB107","title":"AN ACT relating to health services in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 156.502 to include a definition of \"medication\" and \"sunscreen\"; require local boards of education to adopt policy allowing students to carry and self-administer sunscreen and permit teachers to voluntarily assist with application; include voluntarily assisting with the application of sunscreen in liability protection for teachers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB107/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB107.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1044929,"bill_number":"HB41","title":"AN ACT relating to the expansion of gaming and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a noncodified section to state the findings of the General Assembly; amend KRS 154A.010 to define, \"authorizing location,\" \"casino,\" \"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 expand the Lottery Corporation board membership and duties; amend KRS 154A.040 to include casino licensees; amend 154A.063 to remove prohibition against casino gaming; create new sections of KRS Chapter 154A to require a local option election in any precinct wanting to host a casino; describe the duties of the county clerk and sheriff in a casino gaming local option election; state requirements for local option elections held on a day other than a regular election day; require the corporation to advertise an invitation to bid for casinos; require the corporation to evaluate all proposals for full casinos; establish initial licensing fees for full casinos at $50 million with an initial licensing period of 10 years and annual renewal thereafter at $6 million per year; permit limited casino gaming at horse racing tracks licensed under KRS Chapter 230; establish requirements for limited casinos; establish requirements for any track holding a limited casino license; establish requirements for principals of any corporation granted a casino license; create license application requirements for casino, manufacturer, or supplier’s licenses; prohibit anyone not licensed from selling, leasing, or otherwise furnishing gaming supplies; prohibit anyone under the age of 21 from participating in casino gaming; require the Lottery Corporation to determine occupations related to casino gaming that require licensure and establish criteria for occupational licensing; permit the corporation to initiate disciplinary action against applicants and license holders; establish an appeal process; establish a gaming tax of 31% and limit that money to the benefit of the state retirement systems for the first 10 years; establish an admission tax of $3 per person per day; establish the casino gaming revenue distribution trust fund; establish the regional tourism and infrastructure development fund and provide criteria for projects seeking money from the fund; waive 15 U.S.C. sec. 1172, 1173 and 1174 for devices authorized by this Act; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations to define and limit games and devices permitted for gaming in casinos; provide guidelines for exclusion or ejection of certain persons; define “cheat” and provide penalties for those who cheat at casino games; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt limited or full casino gaming; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt persons engaged in casino gaming; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt gambling activity and devices licensed under KRS Chapter 154A; amend KRS 528.020 to conform; amend KRS 528.070 to exempt activity licensed under KRS Chapter 154A; amend KRS 528.080 to exempt those with the appropriate license required under KRS Chapter 154A; amend KRS 528.100 to exempt limited or full casino gaming licensed under KRS Chapter 154A; EFFECTIVE DATE DELAYED.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB41/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB41.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1044930,"bill_number":"SR25","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rodney Lee Wiley.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rodney Lee Wiley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR25/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR25.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1044931,"bill_number":"HB32","title":"AN ACT relating to death in the line of duty benefits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 16.601 and 61.621 to increase minimum death benefits payable to the surviving spouse of a member of the state-administered retirement systems from 25% to 50% of the deceased member's final rate of pay if the member died as a result of an act occurring in the line of duty; amend KRS 61.542 to provide that the surviving spouse shall supersede all previously designated beneficiaries in the case of line-of-duty death benefits payable from the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems unless the member files a valid beneficiary designation form after marriage to his or her spouse; provide that eligible surviving spouses of members who died in the line of duty prior to the effective date of the Act shall receive the increased line of duty death benefits; provide that a surviving spouse of a hazardous duty member who died as a result of an act occurring in the line of duty on or after January 1, 2017, who was ineligible for the minimum monthly death benefits because he or she was not named beneficiary shall be eligible for the benefits provided by this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB32/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB32.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1044932,"bill_number":"SB39","title":"AN ACT relating to child abuse awareness and prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to permit the Kentucky Board of Education to establish age-appropriate education programs pertaining to the recognition of child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect and how to report suspected abuse; create a short title, \"Erin's Law,\" for the amendments to KRS 156.070 contained in this Act and for KRS 156.095(7).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB39/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB39.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1044933,"bill_number":"SB45","title":"AN ACT relating to continuing education.","description":"Amend KRS 316.130 to eliminate the 6-hour, in-person continuing education requirement for funeral directors and embalmers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB45/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB45.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1044934,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted 64-26","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR2.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1044935,"bill_number":"HB57","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":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB57/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB57.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1044936,"bill_number":"SR22","title":"Jan 04-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 04-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR22/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR22.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1044937,"bill_number":"HB51","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 6.500 to 6.577 to permit a member or retiree of the Legislators' Retirement Plan to opt out of the traditional defined benefit plan and elect to participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System's hybrid cash balance plan for nonhazardous employees under KRS 61.597; specify that, on the member's effective election date, the value of the active member's accumulated account balance or a lump-sum payment of the actuarial value of the retiree's benefits be deposited into the member's hybrid cash balance account and be considered part of the member's accumulated account balance in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System; specify that on an active member's effective election date, an employer pay credit shall be applied to the member's accumulated account balance for each contributing month prior to the effective election date; require the Judicial Form Retirement System and the Kentucky Retirement Systems to provide the electing member with information detailing the consequences of the member's or retiree's election; specify that a member or retiree is not eligible to make an election until a private letter ruling by the IRS is received; make the benefit election under this section irrevocable; amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2018, and transfer all legislative members' in the hybrid cash balance plan to the hybrid cash balance plan in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System; make conforming amendments to KRS 21.374, 21.402, and 61.597; amend KRS 141.010 and 141.020 to provide that, effective for taxable years on or after January 1, 2019, members and retirees of the Legislators' Retirement Plan who do not opt out of the traditional defined benefit plan and elect to participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System's hybrid cash balance plan have any retirement distributions exceeding $80,000 taxed at a rate of 75%.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB51/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB51.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1044938,"bill_number":"SB28","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2018; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after August 1, 2018; provide that current and future legislators may only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB28/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB28.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1044939,"bill_number":"HB35","title":"AN ACT relating to public assistance.","description":"Amend KRS 205.200 to create a substance abuse screening program for adult recipients","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB35/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB35.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1044940,"bill_number":"HB88","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of the Treasury and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 393.250 to allow all expenses for the operation of the Treasury Department to be paid out of the abandoned property fund; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB88/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB88.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1044941,"bill_number":"SR7","title":"Honor Kellie Clark upon being named 2018 Kentucky Teacher of the Year.","description":"Honor Kellie Clark upon being named 2018 Kentucky Teacher of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR7/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR7.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044943,"bill_number":"SB22","title":"AN ACT relating to sports wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to institute a sports wagering system; amend KRS 230.210 to define \"exempt sports contest,\" \"sports wagering,\" and \"sports wagering facility\"; amend KRS 230.215 to declare it the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage the conduct of wagering on sporting events, when allowed by federal law, and to vest forceful control over sports wagering in the racing commission; include consideration of members of professional and collegiate sports organizations in the Governor's appointments to the commission; amend KRS 230.240 to allow the director of the racing commission to take personnel action relating to sports wagering; amend KRS 230.260 to include promotion of fair sports wagering among the purposes of the racing commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish licensing requirements and establish a licensing fee of $250,000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing the manner in which sports wagering shall be conducted; provide minimum criteria; prohibit participants from wagering on a sporting event; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish a 20 percent tax on the total amount wagered at sports wagering facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish the sports wagering distribution trust fund and appropriate moneys from that fund; amend KRS 230.320 to include sports wagering among the activities that are regulated by the racing commission; amend KRS 230.360 to include sports wagering among the activities that are not subject to local control; amend KRS 230.990 to establish penalties for tampering with the outcome of a sporting event and participant wagering on a sporting event; EFFECTIVE UPON CONTINGENCY: Act takes effect only if the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is repealed by Congress or is rendered void by the United States Supreme Court.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB22/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB22.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1044944,"bill_number":"HB33","title":"AN ACT relating to the overtaking of bicycles on a roadway.","description":"Amend KRS 189.300 to provide that the operator of any vehicle moving upon a highway is to keep to the right unless signage or markings indicate otherwise; amend KRS 189.340 to require vehicles overtaking bicycles to pass at a distance of at least three feet; provide that if there is not a minimum distance of three feet available, the passing vehicle is to use reasonable caution; specify when a motor vehicle may pass a bicycle to the left of the center of a roadway.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 38)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB33/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB33.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1044945,"bill_number":"HB81","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled parking placards.","description":"Amend KRS 189.456 to require a county clerk to issue one accessible parking placard to an applicant at no cost; change placard renewal cycle from 2 years to 6 years; specify that placard expires in the applicant's birth month and may be renewed up to 12 months prior to expiration; establish a system for the creation of a decal to be affixed to the placard after renewal; require statement for initial permanent placard and placards issued prior to the effective date of the Act; require that a statement to obtain a placard be made on a form prescribed by the Transportation Cabinet; allow a parent or guardian of a disabled person to apply for a placard on his or her behalf; allow an organization to obtain a placard; require an initial permanent placard to be issued at no cost; establish a fee of $10 for a duplicate or replacement placard; specify that $8 of the fee be forwarded to the road fund and $2 to the county clerk; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 189.458 to require that an initial temporary placard be issued at no charge; establish a fee of $10 for a replacement placard; specify that $8 of the fee be forwarded to the road fund and $2 to the county clerk; amend KRS 186.042 and 186.990 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 63)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB81/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB81.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1044946,"bill_number":"HB112","title":"AN ACT relating to financial disclosure.","description":"Amend KRS 6.787 to include the name of any person or entity for whom a person filing a financial statement with the Legislative Ethics Commission, or the person's spouse, is a paid consultant.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB112/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB112.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1044947,"bill_number":"HB46","title":"AN ACT relating to credit freezes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.365 to allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 41)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB46/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB46.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1044948,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Regular Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Regular Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR3.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1044949,"bill_number":"SB31","title":"AN ACT relating to kinship care.","description":"Amend KRS 605.120 to permanently establish a kinship care program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB31/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB31.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1044951,"bill_number":"HB69","title":"AN ACT relating to service delivery improvements in managed care networks.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish and require that the Department for Medicaid Services designate a single credentialing verification organization to verify credentials for DMS and all contracted Medicaid Managed Care Organizations; submit the credentialing organization to Government Contract Review Committee for comment; require providers to submit a single application to the credentialing organization; require notification within 5 days to the provider if application is complete; require verified packets be sent to the DMS and MCOs within 30 days; require DMS to enroll providers within 15 days and for the MCOs to determine if they will contract with the provider within 15 days; specify that for reimbursement of claims purposes the date of the submission of the credentialing application shall be the date of original enrollment and credentialing; address the written internal appeals process of MCOs; require 24/7 utilization reviews and daily staffing for claims resolution; establish grievance and appeal timeline and written appeal requirements; require reprocessing of incorrectly paid or erroneously denied claims; allow for in-person meetings for unpaid claims beyond 45 days and that individually or in the aggregate exceed $2,500; require consistency and timeliness between physical, behavioral, or other medically necessary services; establish timelines for preauthorization requests; require that substance use disorder be treated as an urgent preauthorization request; require a single nationally recognized clinical review criteria for both physical health and behavioral health services; establish monthly reporting requirements for MCOs relating to claims; require reporting between the DMS and the Department of Insurance; establish penalties for MCOs that fail to comply; prohibit automatic assignment of Medicaid enrollees to an MCO unless there is a participating acute care hospital within the distance requirements; allow for enrollees to change MCOs outside of the open enrollment if their hospital or PCP terminates participation with an MCO; amend KRS 304.17A-515 to require each managed care plan to demonstrate that it offers physically available acute care hospital services; amend KRS 304.17A-576 to require a response about credentialing within 45 instead of 90 days; amend KRS 304.17A-700 to reference Section 1 of the bill.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-04","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 106)","last_action_date":"2018-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB69/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB69.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1044952,"bill_number":"HB94","title":"AN ACT relating to the transfer of real property on death.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 394 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is not an inter vivos transfer and that transfer occurs at the time of the transferor’s death; specify that the transferor retains the power to revoke a transfer on death deed; enumerate that a transfer on deed is nontestmentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without notice to or acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor’s lifetime; establish provisions for the revocation of a transfer on death deed by instrument or act; enumerate the effect of a transfer on death deed during transferor’s life; allow a beneficiary to disclaim all or part of the beneficiary’s interests; specify the impact of transfer on death deed on claims when an estate is insufficient; enumerate that a beneficiary of a transfer on death deed may disclaim the property interest in the deed; create the form for creating a transfer on death deed; create the form for revocation of a transfer on death deed; require that the provisions of KRS Chapter 394 be applied and construed so as to promote uniformity; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; specify the applicability of KRS Chapter 394 to current law; specify that this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; amend KRS 382.110, 391.360, and 403.190 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB94/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB94.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1044953,"bill_number":"HB56","title":"AN ACT relating to educational programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop academic standards for a financial literacy program to be implemented by each public high school; require the financial literacy program to be completed for high school graduation; direct the department to determine the implementation date.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB56/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB56.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1044954,"bill_number":"SB17","title":"AN ACT relating to wages.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2018, to $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2019, to $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $11.00 per hour on July 1, 2021, to $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2022, to $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2023, to $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2024, and to $15.00 per hour on July 1, 2025, and to raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, to $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2019, to $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2020, and to $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2021; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB17/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB17.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1044955,"bill_number":"HB89","title":"AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify the powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government, regarding home rule powers that do not conflict with the comprehensive plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB89/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB89.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1044956,"bill_number":"HB26","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; 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; allow the Department of Revenue to report tax credit information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend other sections to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB26/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB26.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1044957,"bill_number":"HB27","title":"AN ACT relating to the Public Service Commission.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require the Public Service Commission to reconsider previously issued orders that involve multistate transactions if the orders involve a multistate transaction that requires approval from another state public utility commission and the out-of-state public utility commission fails to approve the transaction or utility plan; require the Public Service Commission to review its previous order and determine whether the order is still in the public interest of Kentucky ratepayers; provide that the provisions of this Act shall apply retroactively to all Public Service Commission orders issued on or after July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB27/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB27.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1044959,"bill_number":"SR30","title":"Honor George McGee upon his retirement from Georgetown College.","description":"Honor George McGee upon his retirement from Georgetown College.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR30/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR30.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1044960,"bill_number":"HB74","title":"AN ACT relating to pawnbrokers.","description":"Amend KRS 226.040 to require specific information on a pawnbroker's register to be included on an Internet-based register; require that the register be available to law enforcement personnel and that it contain a full description of property purchased or pawned; require secondhand merchandise sold to a pawnbroker to be held a minimum of 12 days before being resold.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 15)","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB74/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB74.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1044961,"bill_number":"HB9","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to make it ethical misconduct for a legislator, employee of the legislative branch, legislative agent, or other person who interacts with legislators or employees of the legislative branch to intentionally engage in harassment or sexual harassment; define \"complaint\" as a verbal or written allegation of fraud, theft, ethical or official misconduct, discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; grant the Legislative Ethics Commission jurisdiction to investigate and proceed upon receipt of a complaint from an employee of the legislative branch regarding fraud, theft, ethical or official misconduct, discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment allegedly committed by legislators, employees of the legislative branch, legislative agents, or any other person who interacts with legislators or employees of the legislative branch on state property or official state business; require the Legislative Ethics Commission to establish a legislative ethics telephone tip line to allow employees of the legislative branch to report complaints of fraud, theft, ethical or official misconduct, discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; require the Legislative Ethics Commission to publicize the existence of the legislative ethics telephone tip line by various methods; require the legislative ethics telephone tip line to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the Legislative Ethics Commission providing staff during regular business hours and allowing for recorded messages; require forwarding of information reported on the tip line to the executive director of the Legislative Ethics Commission or designee on an approved form; provide that the alleged perpetrator shall be notified and given the oppritunity to file a written response; require the chair, vice chair, or executive director of the Legislative Ethics Commission to interview the complainant, the alleged perpetrator, and any other person with information pertinent to the complaint; direct the commission to give the status of the complaint and a general statement of applicable law to the complainant and alleged perpetrator; provide for consultation with the complainant and, if the chair and vice chair of the Legislative Ethics Commission agree the complaint is resolved, closing of the file; if the complaint has not been resolved, require the enforcement counsel of the commission to file a complaint as provided in KRS 6.686(1)(a); set forth confidentiality provisions; provide that complainants shall not be subject to reprisal; require annual reporting of the complaints reported on the legislative ethics telephone tip line; allow employees to pursue other ways of reporting complaints of fraud, theft, ethical or official misconduct, discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; permit employees who report complaints to seek assistance from the Kentucky Employee Assistance Program or from private health professionals for matters related to the complaints; amend KRS 6.611 and 11.010 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB9/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB9.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1044962,"bill_number":"HB82","title":"Jan 19-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 19-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB82/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB82.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1044963,"bill_number":"HJR16","title":"Designate and declare the Mallard as the State Game Waterfowl of Kentucky.","description":"Designate and declare the Mallard as the State Game Waterfowl of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR16/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR16.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1044964,"bill_number":"SR24","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arnitha Howell Spencer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arnitha Howell Spencer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR24/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR24.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1044965,"bill_number":"SR21","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Leon Mayo.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Leon Mayo.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR21/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR21.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1044966,"bill_number":"HB31","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB31/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB31.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1044967,"bill_number":"HB62","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to apply a uniform penalty of mandatory drug treatment and community service to persons convicted of possessing certain drugs and paraphernalia; amend KRS 218A.140 to revise possession of counterfeit substances from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.1415 to revise possession of a controlled substance from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.1437 to lower possession of a methamphetamine precursor from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.276 to require that defendants convicted of possession of a counterfeit substance under KRS 218A.140, marijuana under KRS 218A.1422, synthetic drugs under KRS 218A.1430, methamphetamine precursors under KRS 218A.1437, salvia under KRS 218A.1451, or drug paraphernalia under KRS 218A.500 complete a drug treatment program; amend KRS 218A.275 to require that defendants convicted of possession of a controlled substance under various sections of Chapter 218A complete a drug treatment program; amend KRS 431.078 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB62/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB62.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":1044968,"bill_number":"SR33","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wesley Dennis \"W.D.\" Owens, Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wesley Dennis \"W.D.\" Owens, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR33/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR33.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1044969,"bill_number":"HB58","title":"Mar 01-WITHDRAWN","description":"Mar 01-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB58/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB58.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1044970,"bill_number":"SB16","title":"AN ACT relating to vacating convictions for reckless homicide.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073 to allow convictions for reckless homicide to be vacated and expunged if the offender has first been granted a partial pardon by the Governor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB16/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB16.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1044971,"bill_number":"SB47","title":"AN ACT relating to voting.","description":"Amend KRS 118.035 to extend voting hours to 6 a.m., prevailing time, to 8 p.m., prevailing time; amend KRS 117.087 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB47/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB47.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1044973,"bill_number":"SB42","title":"AN ACT relating to the lawful taking of wildlife.","description":"Amend KRS 150.363 to define \"unmanned aircraft systems\" and prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems to track, hunt, or harvest wildlife; amend KRS 150.710 to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems to conduct surveillance of persons lawfully engaged in hunting, trapping, or fishing.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB42/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB42.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1044974,"bill_number":"HB111","title":"AN ACT relating to military license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.041, regarding military-related special license plates, to allow recipients of those plates to renew the plates online if the veteran's status has not changed.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB111/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB111.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1044975,"bill_number":"HB78","title":"AN ACT relating to ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 7.119 to include communication made by members of the General Assembly on publicly owned computers or cell phones in the definition of records available for public inspection; amend KRS 11A.040 to prohibit a public servant from acting as an executive branch lobbyist for one year after leaving employment, and prohibit a public servant from bidding on or holding a state contract unless approved by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission; amend KRS 11A.045 to prohibit a public servant from accepting any gifts or gratuities from a person or business holding a state contract; amend KRS 11A.050 to add the financial statement filings for public servants to include August 15 and December 15, require appointees to state boards and commissions to file a financial disclosure statement on or before April 15, and require constitutional officers and candidates for constitutional office to file a copy of their tax returns with the commission; amend KRS 11A.060 to reestablish the commission as an independent, de jure municipal corporation, and change the way in which board members are appointed and removed; amend KRS 11A.070 to set out requirements for the executive director of the commission, limit his or her employment term, and require he or she be sworn in under Section 228 of the Kentucky Constitution, require the commission to employ four full-time investigators, and make all employees of the commission independent; amend KRS 11A.080 to prohibit the commission from turning over information to other agencies, contractors, or persons, and from making public statements prior to the completion of an investigation; amend KRS 11A.110 to create an ethics tip line; amend KRS 11A.990 to make failure to disclose a financial disclosure statement or tax return as required a Class D felony and disqualify the public servant from holding public office; amend KRS 12.028 to remove the commission from the reorganization authority of the Governor; amend KRS 18A.005 to include the definition of \"relative\"; amend KRS 18A.155 to prohibit a relative of a sitting state legislator or cabinet secretary from being hired in the unclassified service; amend KRS 45A.095 to define \"business relationship\" and \"family,\" and prohibit a no-bid contract with a vendor having a business relationship with the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or a member of the Governor's Executive Cabinet or any vendor owned by them; amend KRS 45A.715 to prohibit the Department of Revenue from entering into a personal service contract that gives the Governor the authority to set out a bonus payment structure for the collection of taxes; make the former Executive Branch Ethics Commission cease to exist effective January 1, 2019; require the Attorney General, the Auditor of Public Accounts, the Secretary of State, and the Chief Justice of the Commonwealth to submit their nominees to the new Executive Branch Ethics Commission to the Governor by October 1, 2018, and require the Governor to appoint the new commissioners on or before December 1, 2018, to take effect January 1, 2019; reconstitution of Executive Branch Ethics Commission effective January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB78/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB78.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1044976,"bill_number":"SR10","title":"Honor Metzger Eye Care upon the occasion of its 60th anniversary.","description":"Honor Metzger Eye Care upon the occasion of its 60th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR10/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR10.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044977,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to crime victims' rights.","description":"Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to create a crime victims' bill of rights; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 1)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB3.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1044978,"bill_number":"HB113","title":"AN ACT relating to traffic lanes.","description":"Amend KRS 189.340 to prohibit vehicles with a gross vehicle weight with any towed unit of 44,001 pounds or greater from traveling in the left lane on a limited access highway with a posted speed limite of 65 mph or greater; provide for exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB113/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB113.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1044979,"bill_number":"HB61","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal attempted murder.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to make criminal attempt to commit murder of a peace officer or a firefighter an offense for which at least 85 percent of the sentence must be served before probation or parole.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB61/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB61.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":1044980,"bill_number":"SR27","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fern Adkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fern Adkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR27/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR27.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1044981,"bill_number":"SR1","title":"Establish the 2018 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","description":"Establish the 2018 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR1/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR1.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1044982,"bill_number":"SR17","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gail Lee Chambers Brown.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gail Lee Chambers Brown.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR17/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR17.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1044983,"bill_number":"SB30","title":"AN ACT relating to crime victims' rights.","description":"Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend various sections of the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights to change statutory definition of \"victim\"; require that restitution to the victim be made when possible; repeal KRS 421.540; provide for a delayed contingent effective date of November 6, 2018, upon ratification of a proposed constitutional amendment providing protection of crime victims' rights.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 19)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB30/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB30.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1044984,"bill_number":"HB67","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to define a \"seasonal/on recall employee\" and require certification for an employer with these types of employees; amend KRS 341.350 to exempt seasonal/on recall employees from the waiting week and reemployment requirements.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB67/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB67.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1044986,"bill_number":"SR4","title":"Appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor.","description":"Appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR4/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR4.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1044987,"bill_number":"HB47","title":"Jan 18-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 18-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB47/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB47.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1044988,"bill_number":"HR11","title":"Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset Provision and the Windfall Elimination Provision.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset Provision and the Windfall Elimination Provision.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR11/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR11.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1044989,"bill_number":"HB70","title":"AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants.","description":"Amend KRS 17.546 to prohibit sex offender registrants from knowingly or intentionally using electronic communications for the purpose of soliciting, contacting, communicating with, or gathering information about a person less than 18 years of age; provide an exception for a registrant using electronic communications to contact, communicate with, or gather information about his or her minor child if not otherwise prohibited and if permitted by the sentencing court; amend KRS 17.510 to require a registrant to provide written notice of all phone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and usernames used by a registrant to electronically communicate with a person less than 18 years of age.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch.42)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB70/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB70.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1044990,"bill_number":"HJR21","title":"Designate the Billy Murphy Memorial Bridge in Monroe County","description":"Designate the Billy Murphy Memorial Bridge in Monroe County","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR21/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR21.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1044991,"bill_number":"SR18","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Terry Allen \"T.A.\" Green.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Terry Allen \"T.A.\" Green.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR18/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR18.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1044992,"bill_number":"HB66","title":"AN ACT relating to the investigation of a shooting or deadly incident by a law enforcement officer.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to provide definitions and establish an Officer Shooting Review Board to investigate any shooting of an individual by a law enforcement officer or officers or any deadly incident involving law enforcement; set requirements for board members; provide duties of the board; specify requirements related to investigatory work performed by the Kentucky State Police Critical Incident Response Team on behalf of the board; establish investigatory procedures and protocols; provide requirements for submission of the board’s report to the Commonwealth's attorney of the jurisdiction in which the shooting or deadly incident took place or to the Attorney General; provide requirements for independent investigation of any shooting of an individual by a law enforcement officer or officers or any deadly incident involving law enforcement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB66/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB66.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1044993,"bill_number":"HB28","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act \"Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB28/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB28.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1044994,"bill_number":"HB80","title":"AN ACT relating to instruction in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and related matters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate regulations regarding human sexuality education; require implementation of a Department of Education-Approved plan during the 2019-2020 school year; set the minimum instructional requirements for grades four through twelve; require instruction by a certified teacher.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB80/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB80.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1044995,"bill_number":"HB49","title":"AN ACT relating to personal jurisdiction.","description":"Amend KRS 454.210 to expand personal jurisdiction of courts over nonresidents.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB49/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB49.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1044996,"bill_number":"SR11","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael Todd Hays.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael Todd Hays.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR11/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR11.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1044997,"bill_number":"SB34","title":"AN ACT relating to state employees.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.110 to require the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for an internal mobility program; prohibit the program from differentiating between full-time and part-time employees in filling full-time positions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB34/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB34.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1044998,"bill_number":"SB23","title":"AN ACT relating to cannabidiol use.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to permit a physician to recommend the use of cannabidiol or cannabidiol products; set criteria for recommendations; prohibit the Board of Medical Licensure from prohibiting recommendations; amend KRS 218A.010 to add recommendation to the definition of marijuana.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB23/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB23.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1045000,"bill_number":"HB96","title":"AN ACT relating to the investigation of fire related crimes.","description":"Amend KRS 15.310 to include definitions of \"certified fire investigator\" and \"fire investigator\"; amend KRS 15.334 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a course of training for fire investigators; amend KRS 15.380 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to certify fire investigators; create a new section of KRS 15.380 to 15.404 to list the minimum qualifications of a fire investigator; amend KRS 15.383 to require a certified fire investigator to annually meet marksmanship qualifications; create a new section of KRS 15.380 to 15.404 to allow the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to revoke a fire investigator's certification; create a new section of KRS 15.380 to 15.404 to require a fire investigator to complete training of at least 275 hours; create a new section of KRS 15.380 to 15.404 to establish certification categories for fire investigators; amend KRS 15.388 to require the fire chief to notify the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council that the employee meets the precertification qualifications of a fire investigator; amend KRS 15.442 to specify that a fire investigator is not eligible to participate in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to define \"fire investigator,\" and provide that the chief of a fire department may appoint a professional firefighter to be a fire investigator; amend KRS 15.382 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 128)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB96/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB96.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1045001,"bill_number":"HB45","title":"AN ACT relating to electric and hybrid vehicle fees and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish a base fee for hybrid vehicles, hybrid electric plug-in vehicles, and non-hybrid electric vehicles; require the fee to be adjusted with any increase or decrease in the gasoline tax established in KRS 138.228; require collection of the fee at the time of motor vehicle registration; require that all fees collected under this section be transferred to the road fund; amend KRS 186.010 to define the terms \"hybrid vehicle,\" \"hybrid electric plug-in vehicle,\" and \"non-hybrid electric vehicle\"; amend KRS 186.050 to reference the fees collected under this Act; amend KRS 138.220 to provide notification to county clerks of the fees provided in this Act; make technical correction; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB45/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB45.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1045002,"bill_number":"HB100","title":"AN ACT relating to building industry licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.650 to revise the definitions of \"maintenance person or maintenance engineer,\" \"major repair,\" and \"routine maintenance of heating, ventilation, or air conditioning\"; amend KRS 198B.658 to change the experience requirement from five years to two years for a master, and from four years to two years for a journeyman; amend KRS 198B.678 to permit a master HVAC contractor to represent more than one firm if specified criteria are met; create a new section of KRS 198B.650 to 198B.689 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased master HVAC contractor; amend KRS 318.054 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased master plumber; amend KRS 227.480 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased electrical contractor; amend KRS 227A.140 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a business to use the license of a deceased master electrician.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 22)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB100/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB100.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1045003,"bill_number":"SR20","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lonnie Harley.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lonnie Harley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR20/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR20.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1045004,"bill_number":"HJR8","title":"Jan 18-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 18-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR8/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR8.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1045005,"bill_number":"HB85","title":"AN ACT relating to elimination of the certificate of need.","description":"Amend KRS 13B.020 to delete reference to certificate of need hearings; amend KRS 79.080 to replace the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.010 to delete reference to the certificate of need and the state health plan; amend KRS 194A.030 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 194A.090 to delete reference to the state health plan; amend KRS 211.192 to correct a statutory citation; amend KRS 205.634 to delete requirement for certificate of need; amend KRS 216.361 to delete requirement for certificate of need; amend KRS 216.560 to correct a statutory citation; amend KRS 216.380 to delete requirement for certificate of need and reference to the state health plan; amend KRS 216.577 to replace the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 216.595 to delete reference to KRS 216B.071; amend KRS 216.885 to delete requirement for certificate of need; amend KRS 216.905 to delete exemption for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216.935 to replace the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 216B.015 to delete and correct definitions relating to certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.020 to delete exemptions to the certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.042 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.0445 to delete the requirement for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.065 to delete the requirement for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.066 to delete the requirement for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.115 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.120 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.131 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.185 to correct a statutory citation; amend KRS 216B.300 to correct a statutory citation; amend 216B.250 to change Human Resources to Health and Family Services; amend KRS 216B.332 to delete exemption from certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.455 to delete the requirement for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.457 to delete the requirement for a certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.990 to delete penalty for not obtaining a certificate of need; amend KRS 218A.175 to correct a statutory reference; amend KRS 304.17-312, 304.17-313, 304.17-317, 304.18-035, 304.18-037 304.32-156, 304.32-280, 304.38-210, and 311.760 to replace the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 304.17A-147 to correct a statutory reference; amend KRS 304.17A-1473 to correct a statutory reference; amend KRS 304.38-020 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 304.38-040 to delete required evidence of a certificate of need; amend KRS 304.38-090 and KRS 304.38-130 to replace the Kentucky Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 311.377 to delete references to the certificate of need; amend KRS 314.027 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 347.040 to delete reference to the state health plan; repeal KRS 211.9523, 216B.010, 216B.035, 216B.040, 216B.061, 216B.0615, 216B.062, 216B.071, 216B.085, 216B.086, 216B.090, 216B.095, 216B.125, 216B.130, 216B.180, and 216B.182.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB85/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB85.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1045006,"bill_number":"SR35","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR35/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR35.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1045007,"bill_number":"HJR5","title":"Direct the Public Service Commission to reexamine the electric rates charged to certain ratepayers to determine if they remain fair, just, and reasonable.","description":"Direct the Public Service Commission to reexamine the electric rates charged to certain ratepayers to determine if they remain fair, just, and reasonable.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR5/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR5.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1045008,"bill_number":"HB75","title":"AN ACT relating to investments made by local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 66.480, relating to investments for local governments, to remove the 20% restriction from securities and to add to the permitted investments local governments may make mutual funds, closed-end, and exchange-traded funds and funds investing in individual preferred stock or equities as long as no more than 7% of the portfolio is composed of individual equities at the time of purchase and qualifying high-quality corporate bonds if the funds are managed by a professional investment advisor; specify that these two additional investment types cannot exceed 20% of the total amount of money invested by the local government; establish an investment limit of 5% of the total amount of money invested in any one issuer unless the issuer is the U.S. government or an agency thereof, or an entity whose obligations are guaranteed by the federal government.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB75/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB75.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":1045009,"bill_number":"HB79","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky increasing the homestead exemption from the current inflation-adjusted amount of $37,600 to the full assessed value of the property for owners with a permanent and total one hundred percent service-connected disability rating by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; make the exemption transferrable upon death to the surviving spouse; add the continued biennial inflation indexing of the homestead exemption amount; make various typographical changes of a nonsubstantive nature; state ballot question; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"reassigned to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB79/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB79.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1045010,"bill_number":"SB19","title":"AN ACT relating to sex offenses.","description":"Amend KRS 510.050, 510.060, 510.080, 510.090, 510.110, and 510.120 to increase penalties for sex crimes against a victim who is a person with an intellectual disability.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 109)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB19/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB19.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1045011,"bill_number":"HCR6","title":"Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset provision.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset provision.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR6/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR6.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1045012,"bill_number":"SJR16","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Charlie Justice on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Charlie Justice on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR16/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR16.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1045014,"bill_number":"SR14","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard L. \"Dick\" Roeding.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard L. \"Dick\" Roeding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR14/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR14.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1045015,"bill_number":"HR10","title":"Expel Representative Jeff Hoover from the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Expel Representative Jeff Hoover from the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR10/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR10.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1045016,"bill_number":"SR6","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mayor Frey Todd.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mayor Frey Todd.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR6/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR6.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1045017,"bill_number":"HR13","title":"Encourage the efforts of the criminal justice system to divert drug offenders to treatment.","description":"Encourage the efforts of the criminal justice system to divert drug offenders to treatment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR13/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR13.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1045018,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"Establish the membership of the 2018 Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Establish the membership of the 2018 Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR1.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1045019,"bill_number":"SR15","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard L. \"Dick\" Roeding.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard L. \"Dick\" Roeding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR15/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR15.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1045020,"bill_number":"SJR5","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Floyd County bridge in honor of Julius Mullins.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Floyd County bridge in honor of Julius Mullins.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR5/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR5.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1045021,"bill_number":"HR17","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Isaac \"Ike\" Martin Slusher.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Isaac \"Ike\" Martin Slusher.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR17/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR17.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1045022,"bill_number":"SR13","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lewis L. \"Tee\" Phelps.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lewis L. \"Tee\" Phelps.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR13/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR13.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1045023,"bill_number":"HB93","title":"AN ACT relating to prevention of exploitation in brokerage-financial accounts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to require qualified individuals to report exploitation to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and to the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions, to allow account disbursements to be delayed under certain circumstances if there is a reasonable belief that the disbursement may result in exploitation, to provide immunity from administrative, civil, or criminal liability for compliance with the Act, to require broker-dealers and investment advisors to provide access to or copies of certain records, and to provide an exemption from the Kentucky Open Records Act for certain records; amend KRS 209.020 to add the Department of Financial Institutions as an authorized agency; and amend KRS 209.030 to avoid duplicative reporting requirement.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 127)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB93/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB93.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1045024,"bill_number":"SB12","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky school bus drivers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate and observe May 1 of every year as \"School Bus Driver Day.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB12/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB12.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1045025,"bill_number":"HCR9","title":"Urge Congress to encourage all state and local governments to participate in the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) program administered by the United States Census Bureau.","description":"Urge Congress to encourage all state and local governments to participate in the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) program administered by the United States Census Bureau.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR9/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR9.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1045026,"bill_number":"HB39","title":"AN ACT relating to student criminal history background checks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit public postsecondary institutions from inquiring about a prospective student's criminal history prior to admission, except for certain types of offenses; allow an institution to inquire about a student's criminal history after admission, for the purposes of providing support services and informing decisions regarding a student's participation in campus activities, organizations, and residency; allow an institution to inquire about a student's criminal history prior to admission into a professional degree program, but prohibit denial of admission based solely on criminal history; require institutions to provide counseling regarding occupational licensing requirements to a professional degree student who has a criminal history.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB39/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB39.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1045028,"bill_number":"HCR18","title":"Create the Mileage-Based Transportation Funding Task Force to develop and study the implementation of a mileage-based transportation funding mechanism; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2018 Interim and to submit any proposed findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2018.","description":"Create the Mileage-Based Transportation Funding Task Force to develop and study the implementation of a mileage-based transportation funding mechanism; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2018 Interim and to submit any proposed findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR18/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR18.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1045029,"bill_number":"SJR36","title":"Designate the New Ledbetter Bridge over the Tennessee River on US 60 as the George Rogers Clark Memorial bridge and direct erection of appropriate signage.","description":"Designate the New Ledbetter Bridge over the Tennessee River on US 60 as the George Rogers Clark Memorial bridge and direct erection of appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR36/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR36.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1045030,"bill_number":"HB65","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2018; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after August 1, 2018; provide that current and future legislators shall only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB65/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB65.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1045031,"bill_number":"HB43","title":"AN ACT relating to appellate judges.","description":"Amend KRS 118A.110 to define \"retention election\" for appellate judges; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118A to create an election process for retaining appointed appellate judges, following the ratification of a constitutional amendment to provide for appointments of appellate judges; amend KRS 118A.020, 118A.030, 118A.060, 118A.100, and 118A.140 to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 21A.020 to set staggered terms for appellate judges; EFFECTIVE contingently on January 1, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB43/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB43.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1045032,"bill_number":"HB59","title":"AN ACT relating to the disclosure of private cellular phone numbers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the marketing, sharing, or selling of wireless phone numbers of subscribers without express written consent of the subscriber; amend KRS 367.990 to create a penalty between $1,000 and $10,000 for each violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"recommitted to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB59/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB59.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":1045033,"bill_number":"SB41","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's license testing.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that a driver's education program include instruction for a driver's conduct during interactions with law enforcement officers; amend KRS 186.480 to require the Kentucky State Police to make a Driver Manual available in printed or electronic format that contains the information needed for an operator's license examination; require that the manual have a section regarding a driver's conduct during interactions with law enforcement officers; require that the operator's license examination include the driver's knowledge regarding conduct during interactions with law enforcement officers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 332 to require driver training schools include in the course of instruction for new drivers how a driver should act during interactions with law enforcement officers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB41/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB41.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1045034,"bill_number":"HB91","title":"AN ACT relating to public procurement.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set forth findings of the General Assembly and establish 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 Kentucky and the United States; define \"manufactured in Kentucky,\" \"manufactured in the United States,\" and \"United States\"; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted; provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; establish a short title of \"Kentucky Buy American Act\"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance with the Kentucky Buy American Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB91/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB91.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1045035,"bill_number":"HB97","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.180(7) to move the date for filing a supplemental annual report from December 1 to December 31.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB97/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB97.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1045036,"bill_number":"SB6","title":"AN ACT relating to the safe disposal of controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.170 to require a practitioner or a pharmacist to sell or distribute a nontoxic composition, which permanently captures the controlled substance, for the sequestration or deactivation and disposal of unused, unwanted, or expired controlled substances anytime a controlled substance is sold or distributed.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 108)","last_action_date":"2018-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB6/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB6.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1045037,"bill_number":"SB24","title":"AN ACT relating to animal safety.","description":"Amend KRS 411.245 to establish immunity from civil liability for damage to a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle for the purpose of removing a domestic animal.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB24/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB24.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1045038,"bill_number":"HB95","title":"AN ACT relating to fire protection and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 75.015 to allow a fire district to charge up to $0.15 per $100 of assessed valuation of property in its district when the fire district is a result of a merger of 2 or more districts on or after the effective date of the Act if no emergency ambulance service is operated within the district, and up to $0.25 when one is; amend KRS 95A.520 to make the section relating to payments made to merging volunteer fire departments apply to fire departments merging prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to create a new payment protocol for volunteer fire departments merging on or after the effective date of the Act; amend KRS 95A.540 to provide for the creation of new volunteer fire departments out of a merged volunteer fire department applicable to volunteer fire departments having merged prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to provide for the creation of new volunteer fire departments out of a merged volunteer fire department applicable to volunteer fire departments merging after the effective date of the Act; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB95/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB95.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1045039,"bill_number":"HB105","title":"AN ACT relating to the terms of office of the trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Kentucky.","description":"Amend KRS 161.250 to remove the term limits for appointed and elected trustees of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System; specify that this Act shall supersede any noncodified provisions to the contrary in prior Acts.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB105/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB105.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1045040,"bill_number":"SB7","title":"AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB7/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB7.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1045042,"bill_number":"SR29","title":"Honor Belfry High School football coach Philip Haywood upon receiving the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award.","description":"Honor Belfry High School football coach Philip Haywood upon receiving the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR29/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR29.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1045043,"bill_number":"SB46","title":"AN ACT relating to female genital mutilation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the Class A felony of female genital mutilation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials related to female genital mutilation; amend KRS 620.030 to provide that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is a victim of female genital mutilation, then that person shall immediately make an oral or written report to the appropriate authorities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB46/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB46.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1045044,"bill_number":"HB48","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow individuals who become members of the General Assembly on or after April 1, 2018, to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly; allow members of the General Assembly who began contributing to the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System on or after December 31, 2014, but prior to April 1, 2018, to make a one-time irrevocable election by December 31, 2018, to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of accumulated contributions; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System applies to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, and 61.525 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB48/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB48.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1045045,"bill_number":"SR31","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Willard Hansford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Willard Hansford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR31/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR31.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1045046,"bill_number":"HJR15","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 406 in Leslie County in honor of World War II veteran Edmond Osborne, and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 406 in Leslie County in honor of World War II veteran Edmond Osborne, and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR15/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR15.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1045047,"bill_number":"SB8","title":"AN ACT relating to the safety of canines and felines.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"reassigned to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB8/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB8.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1045048,"bill_number":"SR3","title":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Regular Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Regular Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR3/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR3.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1045049,"bill_number":"HB54","title":"AN ACT relating to historical preservation.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 11 to establish the Kentucky Memorial Preservation Act of 2018; define terms; create standards for preservation; prohibit any person from preventing maintenance of memorials under the jurisdiction of a governmental entity; establish the Committee on Kentucky Monument Protection and provide the structure, process, and membership of the committee; establish the duties of the committee; establish a petition process for a waiver if an entity wants to remove, alter, rename, relocate, or disturb certain significant properties; create certain exemptions; authorize the Attorney General to determine whether an entity responsible for the architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial school, memorial street, or monument has complied with the provisions of this Act; require the Division of Historic Properties to promulgate administrative regulations under KRS Chapter 13A for the implementation of this Act; amend KRS 11.026 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB54/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB54.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1045050,"bill_number":"HB52","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of bicycles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.287 to direct the Transportation Cabinet to include a requirement for bicycle helmets for operators and passengers under the age of 12 in the bicycle standards and safety regulations promulgated under this section.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB52/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB52.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1045051,"bill_number":"HB63","title":"AN ACT relating to telephone solicitation.","description":"Amend KRS 367.46955 to prohibit knowingly using a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent of defrauding or causing to another person or wrongfully obtain anything of value.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-02","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB63/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB63.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1045052,"bill_number":"HB92","title":"AN ACT relating to jail canteens.","description":"Amend KRS 441.135 to allow jail canteen profits to be used for the enhancement of jail safety and security.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-03-03","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 7)","last_action_date":"2018-03-03","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB92/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB92.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1045053,"bill_number":"HB109","title":"AN ACT relating to local board of education eligibility.","description":"Amend KRS 160.180 to change member eligibility requirements to exclude persons holding any elective federal, state, county, or city office.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-02","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB109/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB109.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1045666,"bill_number":"SB54","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 KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; 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 prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB54/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB54.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1045672,"bill_number":"SR40","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joe David Wilson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joe David Wilson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR40/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR40.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1045679,"bill_number":"HB120","title":"AN ACT relating to child pornography.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to prohibit the distribution of any material that portrays child pornography or a sexual performance by a minor.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 23)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB120/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB120.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1045686,"bill_number":"HB122","title":"AN ACT relating to fire department reporting.","description":"Amend KRS 65A.010, 75.430, and 95A.055 to require fire departments created under KRS Chapter 273 to report to the Fire Commission under KRS 95A.055 rather than under KRS Chapter 65A.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-09","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 90)","last_action_date":"2018-04-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB122/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB122.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1045692,"bill_number":"HB125","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 to the name of the new county, the formation of magisterial districts, or other issues on the ballot; require all taxes from the 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 67.280 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":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB125/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB125.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1045700,"bill_number":"SB55","title":"AN ACT relating to school councils.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to allow a local board to require an annual report of activities from a school council; specify the alignment of council policy with local board policy; specify that local board members may attend council meetings; permit a superintendent to forward qualified applicants to the principal instead of the council; alter principal hiring process to be selected by the superintendent or the superintendent's designee after consultation with school council; specify that school council policies adopted under statute shall be consistent with local board policy; require a local board to adopt a policy for reviewing actions of the school council based on inconsistencies with local board policy or hindrances to the efficient operation of the district as a whole; require school council authority to be transferred to the superintendent if a school is identified for comprehensive support and improvement; allow school council authority to be transferred to the principal or superintendent upon request of the local board and approval of the Kentucky Board of Education; establish requirements of such a request; allow a local board to restore school council authority after four years; make technical corrections; amend to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB55/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB55.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1045709,"bill_number":"HB119","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Grape and Wine Council and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 260.165, 260.166, and 260.167 to replace the Kentucky Grape and Wine Council fund with the Kentucky small farm wineries support fund; provide for the receipt and disbursement of Funds; amend KRS 260.175 to clarify requirements of the Kentucky small farm wineries support fund; create the Kentucky Grape and Wine Council Vineyard Expansion Reimbursement Grant Program; remove set program allocations; repeal KRS 260.168; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB119/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB119.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1045718,"bill_number":"SR42","title":"Declare January 17, 2018, to be Hunger Free Kentucky Day.","description":"Declare January 17, 2018, to be Hunger Free Kentucky Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR42/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR42.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1045727,"bill_number":"SR38","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Harold Gene Hendren.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Harold Gene Hendren.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR38/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR38.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1045735,"bill_number":"HB121","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480, relating to the sales and use tax, to exempt bees used in a commercial enterprise for the production of honey or wax for sale, or in the pollination of crops, and certain items used in that commercial enterprise; require the Department of Revenue to provide information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.020, 131.135, 131.190, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, and 141.389 to make various conforming changes; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB121/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB121.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1045741,"bill_number":"SR44","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Janet Martin Johnson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Janet Martin Johnson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR44/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR44.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1045750,"bill_number":"HB4","title":"AN ACT relating to the privileging of peer review activities in health care.","description":"Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 11)","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB4/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB4.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1045757,"bill_number":"SR43","title":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 18 to 24, 2018, as Food Checkout Week.","description":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 18 to 24, 2018, as Food Checkout Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR43/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR43.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1045766,"bill_number":"SR37","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Julianna \"Juju\" Wooldridge.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Julianna \"Juju\" Wooldridge.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR37/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR37.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1045772,"bill_number":"HB117","title":"AN ACT relating to a district board of education's levy of an equivalent tax rate.","description":"Amend KRS 132.017 to require a district board of education, when an equivalent tax rate of at least five cents fails to pass pursuant to an election, to levy a rate that produces no more revenue than the compensating tax rate and to wait three years before levying another equivalent tax rate of at least five cents; amend KRS 160.470 to provide an exception to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB117/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB117.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1045780,"bill_number":"SB43","title":"AN ACT relating to adoption.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to establish a putative father registry in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; prescribe the data the registry will contain and who may access the data; amend KRS 199.480 and 199.990 to conform; amend KRS 199.473 to create a unified application for permission to place or receive a child; amend KRS 199.500 to redefine the time at which a voluntary and informed consent to adoption becomes final and irrevocable; amend KRS 199.470 to remove waiting period to file a petition for adoption; amend KRS 406.081 to require courts to resolve cases against alleged fathers who do not comply with ordered genetic testing; amend KRS 406.091 to require the party requesting that the paternity action be filed to pay for genetic testing; amend KRS 199.011, 199.502, 199.555, and 625.065 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB43/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB43.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1045791,"bill_number":"SB52","title":"AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB52/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB52.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1045799,"bill_number":"HB118","title":"AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to clarify that compulsory school attendance age is from six to eighteen; remove obsolete language regarding compulsory attendance age; amend KRS 159.051 to remove reference to students who have dropped out of school; amend KRS 159.180 to state that notice can be sent by standard mail via the United States Postal Service.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB118/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB118.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1045805,"bill_number":"HB124","title":"AN ACT relating to enhanced standards and criteria for substance use disorder treatment and recovery services and programs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to complete a comprehensive review of all current state licensure and quality standards for substance use disorder treatment and recovery services and programs; specify that licensure and quality standards be based on nationally recognized and evidence-based standards, standardized outcome measures, a reporting process, and conditions for reimbursement; permit fees for licensure; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the licensure and quality standards by January 1, 2019, repeal KRS 222.037 and 222.212; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 61)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB124/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB124.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1045814,"bill_number":"SR41","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Julian Andrew Bond.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Julian Andrew Bond.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR41/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR41.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1045821,"bill_number":"SR39","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Ernest G. Estridge.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Ernest G. Estridge.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR39/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR39.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1045831,"bill_number":"HB114","title":"AN ACT relating to TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 96.895 to require that a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in-lieu-of-tax revenue deposited in the general fund be distributed to agencies designated by counties that have TVA property located in that county or purchase power from TVA, increasing from zero percent currently to 50 percent or a maximum of $6,000,000; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 129)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB114/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB114.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1045837,"bill_number":"SB53","title":"AN ACT relating to service improvements in the Medicaid program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of MCO contracts to operate the Medicaid program to 2 and to establish a process for selecting the two winning MCOs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require that services provided in rural counties be reimbursed at least at the median amount paid to an urban health care provider within the nearest metropolitan statistical area; establish a penalty that goes to the underpaid provider.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB53/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB53.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1045845,"bill_number":"SB51","title":"AN ACT prohibiting tobacco use on school property.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit use of tobacco products by students, school personnel, and visitors in schools, school vehicles, properties, and activities; require policies to be in place by the 2019-2020 school year; require that smoke-free policies and signage be adopted; provide that existing bans are not impacted; repeal KRS 438.050.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB51/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB51.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1045855,"bill_number":"HB123","title":"AN ACT relating to special license plates and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create a Break the Silence special license plate, with extra fees used by the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence to support programs for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the Break the Silence special license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of license plates to be perpetually produced.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB123/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB123.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1045863,"bill_number":"HB115","title":"AN ACT relating to reporting prescriptions to terminate a pregnancy.","description":"Amend KRS 213.101 to require a physician to report a prescription for mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs that are intended to end a pregnancy to the Vital Statistics Branch within 15 days after the end of the month in which the prescription was written; create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require a physician to report a prescription for mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs that are intended to end a pregnancy; amend KRS 311.723 and 311.735 to correct citations to KRS 213.101.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB115/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB115.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1045873,"bill_number":"SB49","title":"AN ACT relating to privilege and confidentiality for peer review activities in health care.","description":"Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB49/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB49.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1045880,"bill_number":"SR45","title":"Honor newly elected Bishop, Father J. Mark Spalding.","description":"Honor newly elected Bishop, Father J. Mark Spalding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR45/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR45.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1045886,"bill_number":"HCR23","title":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-03","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR23/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR23.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1045895,"bill_number":"SB20","title":"AN ACT relating to health care providers.","description":"Amend KRS 216C.010 to define \"affidavit of merit\"; create new section of Chapter 216C to require filing of medical malpractice action with an affidavit of merit; amend KRS 422.317 to regulate fees charged by a hospital or health care provider to provide a copy of medical records; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216C to limit a claimant's attorney fees in a malpractice claim against a health care provider; amend KRS 216C.030 and 311.377 to conform; create a new section of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence to prohibit the introduction of expressions of sympathy, compassion, commiseration, or a general sense of benevolence in medical malpractice actions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB20/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB20.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1045901,"bill_number":"HB116","title":"AN ACT relating to jails.","description":"Amend KRS 441.125 to remove the words \"nonreligous sponsored\" from the definition of \"community-service-related project.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 103)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB116/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB116.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1046614,"bill_number":"SB64","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.","description":"Amend KRS 131.175, relating to revenue, to make technical/clarifying corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB64/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB64.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046618,"bill_number":"SB57","title":"AN ACT relating to terrorism.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow a person injured by an act of terrorism to file a claim for damages against the terrorist; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to establish a crime of terrorism as a capital offense which shall be punished by imprisonment for life without probation or parole; state that a person convicted of terrorism shall not be released early.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 111)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB57/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB57.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1046623,"bill_number":"HB140","title":"AN ACT relating to the law enforcement and firefighters foundation programs, declaring an emergency, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 15 related to participation in the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund to provide that the annual training stipend paid to all conservation officers be paid from the game and fish fund established in KRS 150.150 in an amount commensurate to the annual supplement paid to other police officers; amend KRS 15.460 to increase the annual supplement amount to $4,000 beginning July 1, 2018; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 89)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB140/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB140.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1046627,"bill_number":"HB134","title":"AN ACT relating to opportunities in education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a separate income tax credit for tuition assistance based on contributions made to a qualified scholarship-granting organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide goals and reporting of metrics related to those goals; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credits may be taken; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to allow financial institutions to take the tax credit against the tax imposed by KRS 136.505; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to order all tax credits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to publish a list of certified nonpublic schools and nonpublic schools seeking certification; require the Department of Revenue to report information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190, 131.135, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, 141.389, and 131.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB134/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB134.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1046631,"bill_number":"HB133","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of agricultural commodities and supplies.","description":"Amend KRS 281.730 to define \"agricultural commodity,\" \"farm supply for agricultural purposes,\" and \"planting and harvesting season\"; exempt drivers of vehicles transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies for agricultural purposes within a 150 air-mile radius from a farm or distribution point during the planting and harvesting season from any provisions of 49 C.F.R. pt. 395, relating to hours of service of drivers, adopted by Transportation Cabinet.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 102)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB133/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB133.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1046636,"bill_number":"SB63","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.","description":"Amend KRS 138.230, relating to motor fuel dealer's records, to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB63/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB63.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046641,"bill_number":"HB136","title":"AN ACT relating to microbreweries.","description":"Amend KRS 243.157 to require microbreweries to report and pay taxes on wholesale sales made directly to consumers to the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 243.882 to define \"microbrewery\" and to include retail sales made by a microbrewery directly to a consumer in the definition of \"wholesale sale\"; amend KRS 243.884 to include microbreweries selling malt beverages directly to consumers; amend KRS 243.886 to exempt microbreweries from the authorization to deduct one percent of the tax due; amend KRS 211.285 to include microbreweries.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 16)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB136/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB136.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1046646,"bill_number":"SB58","title":"AN ACT relating taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 131.181 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB58/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB58.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046650,"bill_number":"SB15","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 161.525 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB15/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB15.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046654,"bill_number":"SR47","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas Anthony \"Tony\" DeName.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas Anthony \"Tony\" DeName.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR47/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR47.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1046658,"bill_number":"SB62","title":"AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.","description":"Amend KRS 48.311, relating to structure of branch budget bills, to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB62/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB62.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046663,"bill_number":"HB131","title":"AN ACT relating to the use of juries in competency hearings conducted in guardianship proceedings.","description":"Amend KRS 387.570 to clarify when a respondent's presence may be waived at a guardianship competency hearing; allow a bench trial when the parties agree, there is no objection from interested parties, and all persons preparing the interdisciplinary report agree that the person is disabled or partially disabled; amend KRS 387.580 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB131/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB131.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1046669,"bill_number":"HB141","title":"AN ACT relating to the emergency revolving school loan fund account, making an appropriation therefore, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.599 to remove eligibility criteria for a loan from the emergency revolving school loan fund account; provide loan eligibility for a school district with a significant revenue shortfall due to circumstances beyond the district's control or other extraordinary financial circumstances; reduce the maximum loan term from 10 to 5 years; increase the maximum loan amount from $250,000 to $500,000; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the loan process; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to monitor loans made from the emergency revolving school loan fund account and provide the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue a financial report by October 1 each year; amend KRS 157.330 to specify that any unexpended SEEK funds shall not lapse and shall be transferred to the emergency revolving school loan fund account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB141/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB141.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1046673,"bill_number":"HB128","title":"AN ACT relating to instruction on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require every public school to provide instruction on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 60)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB128/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB128.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1046677,"bill_number":"SB25","title":"AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65A to require proposed increases in ad valorem taxes and certain fees and the levy of new ad valorem taxes or fees by special purpose governmental entities to be submitted to the legislative body of the county or city in which the special purpose governmental entity is located for review; amend KRS 75.031 to require that nonfirefighter property owner members of boards of trustees for fire protection districts and volunteer fire department districts be elected in regular November elections; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; repeal KRS 65A.100; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB25/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB25.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1046683,"bill_number":"HB139","title":"AN ACT relating to vision examinations.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require a conclusive vision examination upon a child's initial enrollment in kindergarten and a vision examaination upon a child's initial enrollment in grade six.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB139/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB139.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1046688,"bill_number":"HR26","title":"Honor the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourn in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, January 18, 2018.","description":"Honor the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourn in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, January 18, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR26/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR26.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1046692,"bill_number":"SB59","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 131.190 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB59/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB59.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046696,"bill_number":"SR48","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lloyd Cress.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lloyd Cress.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR48/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR48.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1046702,"bill_number":"SB67","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amends KRS 131.020 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB67/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB67.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046707,"bill_number":"HB138","title":"AN ACT relating to boards of adjustment.","description":"Amend KRS 100.217, relating to planning and zoning boards of adjustment, to allow for a joint board of adjustment to be appointed, and set out its membership parameters.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 130)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB138/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB138.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1046711,"bill_number":"HB135","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency air ambulance coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define balance bill and insured; create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define registered air ambulance service provider, to prohibit a health benefit plan from using an allowed amount for air ambulance services under certain conditions, to determine when an air ambulance transport is medically necessary, to require assumption of charges by the insurer under certain conditions, to require notification to the air ambulance service of assumption by the insurer, prohibit the air ambulance provider from certain actions following receipt of notification, to establish payment requirements for the insurer, to establish the Independent Dispute Resolution program for disputed air ambulance service charges within the Department of Insurance, to require reporting by registered air ambulance service providers and the department, to set requirements for registration in the program, to set requirements to be an independent reviewer for the program, and to establish procedures for the Independent Dispute Resolution program; and amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB135/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB135.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1046716,"bill_number":"HB126","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 186.990, 194A.990, 341.990, and 516.120 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful registration of a car to evade taxes, misrepresentation to receive public assistance or unemployment benefits, and unlawful use of slugs from $100 to $1,500; amend KRS 205.8461, 205.8463, 209.990, 238.995, and 434.850 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful referral practices of a Medicaid provider, fraudulent Medicaid claims, wantonly or recklessly exploiting a vulnerable adult, charitable gaming fraud, unlawful diversion of charitable gaming funds, and unlawful access to computers in the second degree from $300 to $1,500; amend KRS 209.990 to raise the threshold level for a Class C felony for knowingly exploiting a vulnerable adult from $300 to $1500; amend KRS 217.181 to raise the threshold levels for a Class C and D felony for theft of a legend drug; amend KRS 304.47-020, 434.650, 434.655, 434.660, 434.670, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, 514.110, 514.120, and 517.060 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for various fraud and theft crimes from $500 to $1500; and amend KRS 365.241 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for counterfeit intellectual property from $1,000 to $1,500.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB126/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB126.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1046722,"bill_number":"HB129","title":"AN ACT relating to sponsorship agreements with public universities.","description":"Amend KRS 164A.575 to require the governing boards of public universities to review contracts for sponsorships and endorsements to protect the good reputation of the university and maintain the financial integrity of the contract.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB129/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB129.htm","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
{"bill_id":1046725,"bill_number":"SB87","title":"AN ACT relating to pay for jury service.","description":"Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase payment to jurors for jury duty in Circuit and District Court from five dollars to ten dollars per day; require that jurors be paid fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred; amend KRS 32.070 to require that persons summoned for jury service in Circuit Court and jurors serving as grand jurors and petit jurors be paid the sum of fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB87/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB87.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1046731,"bill_number":"HR25","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR25/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR25.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1046735,"bill_number":"HB132","title":"AN ACT relating to financial literacy.","description":"Create a new Chapter of KRS 158 to require a financial literacy course as a high school graduation requirement; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the financial literacy course; direct the Department of Education to develop curricula, materials, and guidelines which may be used by schools for the financial literacy course.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 81)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB132/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB132.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1046741,"bill_number":"HR24","title":"Urge the Governor to open up the state National Guard armories as warming centers while temperatures remain at brutally cold levels.","description":"Urge the Governor to open up the state National Guard armories as warming centers while temperatures remain at brutally cold levels.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR24/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR24.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1046745,"bill_number":"HB127","title":"AN ACT relating to survivor benefits in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.","description":"Amend KRS 161.520 to remove marriage as a disqualifying event for a widow or widower who is receiving survivor's benefits from the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System; specify that the widow or widower must have been married to the deceased contributing member for not less than five years.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB127/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB127.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1046748,"bill_number":"SR46","title":"Jan 09-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 09-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR46/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR46.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1046752,"bill_number":"SB66","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.530 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB66/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB66.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046757,"bill_number":"HB137","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky and to amend Section 99 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the office of Constable.","description":"Propose to create a new Section 99A of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the legislative body of a county to choose to abolish the office of Constable and also to reestablish that office through an ordinance; allow the legislative body of a city within the county to suspend the powers of the office of Constable within the city limits of that city and to reestablish those powers through an ordinance; amend Section 99 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform; submit question to the voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB137/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB137.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1046760,"bill_number":"SB60","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 131.030 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB60/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB60.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046767,"bill_number":"SB56","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.","description":"Amend KRS 230.225 to make ex officio members of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission nonvoting members.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-03-10","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 9)","last_action_date":"2018-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB56/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB56.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1046772,"bill_number":"HB142","title":"AN ACT relating to the distribution of school funds.","description":"Amend KRS 157.410 to require the chief state school officer to prepare estimates for school district fund allotment and establish an incremental schedule for fund disbursement, allotment revisions, and equalization.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 131)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB142/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB142.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1046775,"bill_number":"HB130","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 13A.290 to 13A.335 to require the staff of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to submit to that committee's co-chairs an annual report on administrative regulations found deficient by a legislative committee; list the information that is necessary to complete the report; include prominent text on the first page of the report outlining potential legislative options; amend KRS 13A.290, 13A.330, and 13A.331 to allow a committee to take action on an administrative regulation within 60 days of LRC referral.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB130/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB130.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1046779,"bill_number":"HB143","title":"AN ACT relating to a school safety and crisis line.","description":"Amend KRS 158.444 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish a School Safety and Crisis Line; establish the operations of the School Safety and Crisis Line.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB143/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB143.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1046783,"bill_number":"SB61","title":"AN ACT authorizing a Murray State University capital project, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 131.030, relating to revenue, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 96)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB61/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB61.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1046787,"bill_number":"SB65","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 131.560 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB65/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB65.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1047072,"bill_number":"SB69","title":"AN ACT relating to educators.","description":"Amend KRS 161.770 to specify that a board of education must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and any other applicable federal law in placing a teacher or superintendent on leave due to a physical or mental disability; prohibit a board from requesting unnecessary medical information or disclosing any medical information; amend KRS 161.790 to clarify the causes for which a contract of a teacher may be terminated; require an attorney to serve as hearing officer and chairman of the tribunal; remove the lay person from the tribunal; establish selection and training requirements for hearing officers; establish a prehearing conference for motions and mediation; establish tribunal's decision as a recommended order and allow parties to file exceptions to recommended order; allow hearing officer to respond to exceptions by entering original recommended order or an amended order as a final order; limit decisions to upholding or overturning the decision of the superintendent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"recommitted to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB69/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB69.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1047084,"bill_number":"SJR52","title":"Direct the Kentucky Department of Education to collaborate with the University of Kentucky to implement and bolster the Kentucky Peer Support Network Project in public schools across the Commonwealth.","description":"Direct the Kentucky Department of Education to collaborate with the University of Kentucky to implement and bolster the Kentucky Peer Support Network Project in public schools across the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 110)","last_action_date":"2018-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR52/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR52.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1047095,"bill_number":"HB149","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.930 to define \"personal communication device\"; prohibit the use of a personal communication device to take, send, or view photographs or videos of an accident scene while operating a motor vehicle.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB149/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB149.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1047106,"bill_number":"HCR35","title":"Urge Congress to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to remove hemp from the definition of marijuana.","description":"Urge Congress to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to remove hemp from the definition of marijuana.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 73)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR35/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR35.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1047118,"bill_number":"SJR50","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 2030 in Floyd County as the \"Corporal Elba Case WWII Purple Heart Memorial Highway.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 2030 in Floyd County as the \"Corporal Elba Case WWII Purple Heart Memorial Highway.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR50/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR50.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1047131,"bill_number":"HR29","title":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR29/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR29.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1047142,"bill_number":"HB144","title":"AN ACT relating to surcharges on insurance policies and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 136.392 to specify that a rate change in a premium surcharge rate used to supplement both the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund and the Firefighters Foundation Program fund shall only be adjusted by an Act of the General Assembly and be applied 90 days after the effective date of the Act; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB144/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB144.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1047153,"bill_number":"HB147","title":"AN ACT relating to seizure disorders in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 159.832 to apply defined terms through KRS 158.838 and define \"seizure action plan\"; amend KRS 158.838 to include any medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder symptoms; require seizure disorder trainings to comply with Epilepsy Foundation of America guidelines; require parent or guardian of student diagnosed with a seizure disorder to collaborate with school personnel to create a seizure action plan; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding contents and development of seizure action plans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require every public school to provide a seizure education program; require Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for development and implementation of the seizure education program; amend KRS 158.070 to require a minimum of one hour of self-study review of seizure disorder materials annually for all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers; provide that the Act may be cited as the Lindsey Crunk Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 153)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB147/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB147.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1047165,"bill_number":"HB5","title":"AN ACT regarding guardianship and conservatorship of partially disabled or disabled adults.","description":"Amend KRS 210.290, relating to public guardianship, to specify when the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may be appointed as a resident's limited guardian, guardian, limited conservator, or conservator; amend KRS 387.510 to provide that a guardian or limited guardian is to manage the personal affairs of a disabled person; amend KRS 387.540 to allow a physician assistant to be part of an interdisciplinary evaluation team; amend KRS 387.570 and 387.580 to retain the right to a jury trial in a guardianship competency hearing if demanded by or on behalf of any party; amend KRS 387.590 to clarify that the same individual, agency, or corporation may be both a guardian and a conservator; amend KRS 387.610 to allow an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant working within his or her scope of practice to verify a renewal petition for guardianship or conservatorship; amend KRS 387.660 to remove custody from a guardian's powers and duties; amend KRS 387.680 to clarify that a limited conservator or conservator may establish or place financial resources in a trust; amend KRS 387.670, 387.700, and 387.710 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 13)","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB5/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB5.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1047178,"bill_number":"HJR33","title":"Recommend that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Administrative Office of the Courts create a pilot Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders, or WINGS, to examine how Kentucky's adult guardianship is working and to identify needed changes.","description":"Recommend that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Administrative Office of the Courts create a pilot Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders, or WINGS, to examine how Kentucky's adult guardianship is working and to identify needed changes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor(Acts, ch. 52)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR33/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR33.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1047190,"bill_number":"HB146","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 246.030 to change the name of the Office for Agricultural Marketing and Product Promotion to the Office of Agricultural Marketing and rename the divisions within that office; change the name of the Office for Strategic Planning and Administration to the Office of Administrative Services and rename the divisions within that office; establish the Office of Communications and the Office of Legal Services; amend KRS 246.130 to clarify meeting requirements of the State Board of Agriculture; amend KRS 247.220, 247.800, 260.020, and 260.030 to conform; make grammatical and technical corrections; confirm Executive Order 2017-001.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 3)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB146/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB146.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1047200,"bill_number":"HR39","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Thomas \"Tom\" Cannon.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Thomas \"Tom\" Cannon.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR39/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR39.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1047211,"bill_number":"HB150","title":"AN ACT relating to the Farms to Food Banks Advisory Committee.","description":"Amend KRS 247.984 to change the name of the Surplus Agricultural Commodities Advisory Committee to the Farms to Foodbanks Advisory Committee; remove the requirement that the Advisory Committee annually review and update its written plan for the expenditure of funds; amend KRS 247.985 to change the reference from the Surplus Agricultural Commodities Advisory Committee to the Farms to Foodbanks Advisory Committee.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 006)","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB150/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB150.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1047222,"bill_number":"HR30","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Myrtle \"Susie\" Bullington.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Myrtle \"Susie\" Bullington.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR30/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR30.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1047234,"bill_number":"HR32","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kay Harrod.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kay Harrod.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR32/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR32.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1047247,"bill_number":"HCR34","title":"Urge federal policymakers to incorporate standards for safety and efficacy in the use of medical marijuana.","description":"Urge federal policymakers to incorporate standards for safety and efficacy in the use of medical marijuana.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR34/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR34.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1047256,"bill_number":"HR28","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Sue Etta \"Susie\" Holland Harlin.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Sue Etta \"Susie\" Holland Harlin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR28/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR28.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1047268,"bill_number":"SR51","title":"Honor the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourn in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, January 18, 2018.","description":"Honor the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourn in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, January 18, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR51/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR51.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1047277,"bill_number":"HR36","title":"Honor the top five energy-efficient school districts in Kentucky for 2017.","description":"Honor the top five energy-efficient school districts in Kentucky for 2017.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR36/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR36.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1047288,"bill_number":"HR27","title":"Recognize February 17 to 24, 2018, as FFA Week in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 17 to 24, 2018, as FFA Week in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR27/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR27.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1047299,"bill_number":"HR37","title":"Recognize January 16th as National Religious Freedom Day.","description":"Recognize January 16th as National Religious Freedom Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR37/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR37.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1047311,"bill_number":"HR31","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Jefre Mason Goodnight.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Jefre Mason Goodnight.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR31/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR31.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1047323,"bill_number":"HR38","title":"Designate June 27, 2018, as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day and June 2018 as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Month.","description":"Designate June 27, 2018, as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day and June 2018 as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR38/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR38.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1047334,"bill_number":"SB68","title":"AN ACT relating to dissolution of marriage.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to clarify that a victim of domestic violence is not required to pay the legal fees of the abusive spouse in a divorce action when the spouse is incarcerated for crimes against the petitioner.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 27)","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB68/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB68.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1047346,"bill_number":"HB152","title":"AN ACT relating to the training of commercial driver's license holders in identifying and reporting human trafficking.","description":"Amend KRS 281A.010 to define \"human trafficking\"; amend KRS 281A.120 to require a person applying for a commercial driver's license to complete training related to identifying and reporting human trafficking; amend KRS 281A.130 to conform; amend KRS 281A.170 to require commercial driver's licenses to be issued with a wallet card that outlines the signs of human trafficking and how to report it, and includes the National Human Trafficking Hotline number; amend KRS 281A.320 and 281.755 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB152/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB152.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1047358,"bill_number":"HB151","title":"AN ACT relating to the naming of public buildings, properties, highways, bridges, and programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 56 to prohibit the naming of any state building or property in honor of a living statewide constitutional officer, member of the General Assembly, justice or judge of the Court of Justice, or state employee during his or her term of office or employment or for a period of five years thereafter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to place the same restrictions on the naming of state programs or initiatives; create new sections of KRS Chapter 65, 65A, 160, and 164 to place similar restrictions on all forms of local government, special purpose governmental entities, school districts, and postsecondary education institutions for buildings, facilities, and programs that receive any state funding; amend KRS 177.074 to place the same restrictions upon the naming of state highways and bridges.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB151/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB151.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1047369,"bill_number":"HB148","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription medications in hospice programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to shift ownership of controlled substances from a deceased hospice patient to a hospice program so the hospice program may dispose of the controlled substances.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 172)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB148/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB148.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1047380,"bill_number":"SR49","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Sharon M. Reynolds.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Sharon M. Reynolds.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR49/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR49.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1048337,"bill_number":"HR44","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fern Adkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fern Adkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR44/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR44.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1048346,"bill_number":"HB158","title":"AN ACT relating to life insurance for public employees.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.205 to permit certain individuals participating in an optional retirement plan authorized by KRS 161.567, certain individuals employed by a public postsecondary educational institution or certain local governments, and any certified or classified employee or elected member of a local board of education to obtain life insurance under the state-sponsored group life insurance policy or policies if the individual's employer opts to participate in the state-sponsored group life insurance program; amend KRS 18A.210 and 18A.215 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 80)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB158/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB158.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1048356,"bill_number":"HB153","title":"AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.222 to allow for a ten percent weight variance for vehicles transporting feed for livestock or poultry.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 175)","last_action_date":"2018-04-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB153/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB153.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1048367,"bill_number":"HR42","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kenneth Lane Evans.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kenneth Lane Evans.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR42/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR42.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1048377,"bill_number":"SR54","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jimmy Lynn Maggard Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jimmy Lynn Maggard Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR54/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR54.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1048388,"bill_number":"SR57","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Lewis Garrison.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Lewis Garrison.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR57/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR57.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1048399,"bill_number":"HR40","title":"Declare January 17, 2018, to be Hunger Free Kentucky Day.","description":"Declare January 17, 2018, to be Hunger Free Kentucky Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR40/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR40.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1048409,"bill_number":"SR58","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kay Harrod.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kay Harrod.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR58/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR58.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1048422,"bill_number":"SB70","title":"AN ACT authorizing a University of Louisville capital project, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Authorize and appropriate $8,000,000 for the construction of a television broadcast/production studio at the University of Louisville; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-02-10","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 2)","last_action_date":"2018-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB70/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB70.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1048432,"bill_number":"SR55","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Viterisi Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Viterisi Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR55/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR55.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1048445,"bill_number":"SR53","title":"Recognize January 11, 2018, as Donate Life Kentucky Day.","description":"Recognize January 11, 2018, as Donate Life Kentucky Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR53/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR53.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1048455,"bill_number":"SR56","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR56/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR56.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1048466,"bill_number":"SR61","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memeory of Billy Wayne Gumm.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memeory of Billy Wayne Gumm.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR61/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR61.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1048476,"bill_number":"SR62","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Garland Hayes.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Garland Hayes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR62/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR62.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1048487,"bill_number":"HB155","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 KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; 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 prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB155/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB155.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1048501,"bill_number":"HR43","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jenniffer Michelle Craig.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jenniffer Michelle Craig.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR43/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR43.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1048512,"bill_number":"HB159","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 243.884 to increase the wholesale sales tax rate for beer, wine, and distilled spirits to 14 percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to forbid local governments from imposing a regulatory license fee on the sale of alcoholic beverages; amend KRS 242.1292 to conform; amend KRS 243.030 to create the supplemental transporter's license and establish a $100 annual fee; amend KRS 244.440 to require that every distiller, rectifier, winery, and nonresident wholesaler make its brands available to any wholesaler and not grant the distributing rights of any particular brand to only one wholesaler exclusively; amend KRS 243.170 to require that alcohol wholesalers make deliveries to retailers on a timely basis and no later than one week after the order date; amend KRS 243.180 to require that alcohol distributors make deliveries to retailers on a timely basis and no later than one week after the order date; amend KRS 243.200 to permit a quota retail package licensee or a nonquota malt beverage package licensee to transport alcoholic beverages between stores of common ownership if the licensee derives not less than 90 percent of his or her cash receipts from the sale of alcohol and pays the annual license fee; amend KRS 244.040 to allow a brewer or distributor to extend credit on malt beverages sold to retailers for up to 30 days; amend KRS 243.110, 243.157, and 243.360 to make conforming changes; repeal KRS 243.075 and 243.886; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB159/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB159.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1048522,"bill_number":"HB160","title":"0AN ACT relating to call centers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require an employer intending to relocate a call center from Kentucky to a foreign country to notify the secretary of the Labor Cabinet at least 120 days prior to such relocation; require the secretary to compile a list of employers that have relocated a call center to a foreign country; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation; provide short title.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB160/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB160.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1048531,"bill_number":"HB145","title":"AN ACT relating to zoning and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 100.324 to require zoning compliance for nonbaseload generation facilities under 10 megawatts; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB145/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB145.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1048542,"bill_number":"HR41","title":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 18 to 24, 2018, as Food Checkout Week.","description":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 18 to 24, 2018, as Food Checkout Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR41/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR41.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1048554,"bill_number":"SB72","title":"AN ACT relating to the naming of state properties, highways, bridges, and programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 56 to prohibit the naming of any state building or property in honor of any living statewide current or former constitutional officer, member of the General Assembly, Justice or Judge of the Court of Justice, or state employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to place the same restrictions on the naming of state programs or initiatives; amend KRS 177.074 to place the same restrictions upon the naming of state highways and bridges.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB72/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB72.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1048564,"bill_number":"HB157","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 121.015 to include within the definition of \"caucus campaign committee,\" subdivisions of a state executive committee of a minor political party, which serve the same function as a caucus campaign committee, as determined by regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 4)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB157/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB157.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1048576,"bill_number":"SR63","title":"Recognize January 16th as National Religious Freedom Day.","description":"Recognize January 16th as National Religious Freedom Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR63/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR63.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1048586,"bill_number":"SR59","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas Ed Handy.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas Ed Handy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR59/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR59.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1048596,"bill_number":"HB156","title":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 10-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB156/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB156.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1048608,"bill_number":"SR60","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dennis Ray \"Chopper\" Hall.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dennis Ray \"Chopper\" Hall.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR60/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR60.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1048618,"bill_number":"HR45","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of former Kentucky State Representative Louis Johnson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of former Kentucky State Representative Louis Johnson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR45/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR45.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1048628,"bill_number":"HB154","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Amend KRS 13A.290 to require the administrative regulations compiler to compile a list of administrative regulations considered during the year, including their disposition; require the co-chairs of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to file the list of regulations as a simple resolution in their respective chambers; allow members to object to any resolution on the list; require the Legislative Research Commission to refer administrative regulations removed from the list to the interim joint committee with jurisdiction over the administrative regulation for additional consideration.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB154/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB154.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1048639,"bill_number":"SB71","title":"AN ACT relating to health education.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require inclusion of abstinence education in any human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases curriculum.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 151)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB71/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB71.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1049764,"bill_number":"HB164","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable gaming.","description":"Amend KRS 238.505 and 238.535 to include 501(c)(7) organizations created for recreational purposes in the types of organizations that may conduct charitable gaming.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-09","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 84)","last_action_date":"2018-04-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB164/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB164.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1049780,"bill_number":"SR65","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard Chin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard Chin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR65/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR65.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1049797,"bill_number":"HJR50","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Hardin County in honor of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Maxie Brashear and erect appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Hardin County in honor of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Maxie Brashear and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR50/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR50.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1049816,"bill_number":"SR75","title":"Honor Kelly Craft upon being named United States Ambassador to Canada.","description":"Honor Kelly Craft upon being named United States Ambassador to Canada.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR75/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR75.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1049834,"bill_number":"SR64","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nathaniel \"Kayne\" Finley.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nathaniel \"Kayne\" Finley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR64/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR64.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1049850,"bill_number":"SR67","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kathleen Mary Gloyeske.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kathleen Mary Gloyeske.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR67/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR67.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1049872,"bill_number":"HB161","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.","description":"Amend KRS 16.065 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide personal protection to any recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor at any public event or ceremony if the individual receives an official invitation to attend.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB161/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB161.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1049890,"bill_number":"SR69","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billy Ray Bale.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billy Ray Bale.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR69/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR69.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1049909,"bill_number":"SR66","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memeory of Sarah Elizabeth Kern Lynch.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memeory of Sarah Elizabeth Kern Lynch.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR66/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR66.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1049926,"bill_number":"SB76","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of the Treasury and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 393.250 to allow all expenses for the operation of the Treasury Department to be paid out of the abandoned property fund; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB76/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB76.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1049946,"bill_number":"HR49","title":"Urge the United States Congress to support federal legislation in advancement of the Appalachian Storage Hub.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to support federal legislation in advancement of the Appalachian Storage Hub.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR49/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR49.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1049962,"bill_number":"HR46","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 23A to require a member or members who file a complaint for expulsion against another member to pay all costs and expenses incurred by the member if the request for expulsion is not approved by the House.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 23A to require a member or members who file a complaint for expulsion against another member to pay all costs and expenses incurred by the member if the request for expulsion is not approved by the House.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"ruled out of order","last_action_date":"2018-01-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR46/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR46.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1049979,"bill_number":"SB73","title":"AN ACT relating to school districts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a pilot program for performance-based professional development projects; require the local board of education to determine the parameters for the pilot program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to study the completed pilot projects and report its findings by August 1, 2022; amend KRS 158.070 to sunset the granting of nontraditional instruction days after the 2020-2021 year.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 174)","last_action_date":"2018-04-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB73/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB73.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050000,"bill_number":"SR73","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sherfield Thomas DeSpain.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sherfield Thomas DeSpain.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR73/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR73.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050018,"bill_number":"SR70","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Larkie Hudgins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Larkie Hudgins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR70/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR70.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050034,"bill_number":"HB162","title":"AN ACT relating to tax-exempt property of purely public charities and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 132.195 to exempt leasehold interests in property owned by a purely public charity when the property and income is used to further the purely public charity's mission; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB162/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB162.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1050054,"bill_number":"HR48","title":"Urge and petition the United States Department of State to seek final status confirmation or secure the release of missing missionary pilot Jerry Krause.","description":"Urge and petition the United States Department of State to seek final status confirmation or secure the release of missing missionary pilot Jerry Krause.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR48/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR48.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1050071,"bill_number":"SR71","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Tenabel Lowe Hancock.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Tenabel Lowe Hancock.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR71/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR71.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050089,"bill_number":"SR72","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Creason.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Creason.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR72/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR72.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050105,"bill_number":"SR74","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Shirley Jean Whitlow Elkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Shirley Jean Whitlow Elkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR74/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR74.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1050125,"bill_number":"SB74","title":"AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification.","description":"Amend KRS 161.095 to prohibit the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) from imposing conditions for a teacher to maintain his or her certification; amend KRS 161.1211 to prohibit the EPSB from requiring a Rank III teacher to obtain a Rank II or Rank I to maintain his or her certificate; amend KRS 161.020 and 156.553 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB74/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB74.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1050141,"bill_number":"HJR47","title":"Jan 11-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 11-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR47/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR47.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1050157,"bill_number":"HB163","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Representatives from serving more than eight consecutive terms in office, not including partial terms, and to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, including a partial term of three years or more, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service, if reelected, in the house from which they were term-limited after two years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB163/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB163.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1050175,"bill_number":"HB165","title":"AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-09","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB165/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB165.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1050192,"bill_number":"SR68","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Theodore Archie Akin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Theodore Archie Akin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR68/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR68.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1052546,"bill_number":"SR86","title":"Honor Interim President Dr. Greg Postel upon the University of Louisville's freeze of tuition for the 2017-2018 academic year.","description":"Honor Interim President Dr. Greg Postel upon the University of Louisville's freeze of tuition for the 2017-2018 academic year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR86/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR86.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052554,"bill_number":"HR54","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of James S. Judy.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of James S. Judy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR54/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR54.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1052562,"bill_number":"HB172","title":"AN ACT relating to submission of budget unit requests.","description":"Amend KRS 48.050, relating to submission of budget unit requests, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB172/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB172.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1052570,"bill_number":"HB168","title":"AN ACT relating to railroad crossings.","description":"Amend KRS 189.550 to require the operators of all buses and motor vehicles used for transporting children to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment; amend KRS 189.560 to require a motor vehicle operator to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment; amend KRS 189.565 to require operators of motor vehicles used to transport inflammable liquids to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 101)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB168/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB168.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1052578,"bill_number":"SR76","title":"Confirm the reappointment of John Barry Coleman as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of John Barry Coleman as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR76/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR76.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052588,"bill_number":"HB175","title":"AN ACT relating to entities registered with the Secretary of State.","description":"Amend KRS 14A.1-070 to define \"veteran\" and \"veteran-owned business\"; create a new section of Subchapter 2 of KRS Chapter 14A to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying filing fees to the Secretary of State's office for filing various business documents; amend KRS 14A.2-060 to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying the filing fee for annual reports and amended annual reports for four years after the initial registration of the business.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB175/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB175.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1052598,"bill_number":"SR80","title":"Confirm the reappointment of R. Roland Case as administrative law judge for the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of R. Roland Case as administrative law judge for the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR80/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR80.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052606,"bill_number":"SR79","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Mark Opp Haines to the Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2022.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Mark Opp Haines to the Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR79/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR79.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052614,"bill_number":"HB170","title":"AN ACT relating to the Board of Veterinary Examiners.","description":"Amend KRS 321.230 to add the state veterinarian or the veterinarian's designee to the board; create a new section of KRS Chapter 321 to assign supervisory duties over the Board of Veterinary Examiners to the Commissioner of Agriculture or the Commissioner's designee; amend KRS 321.360 to grant administrative appeal of final actions by the board to the Commissioner of Agriculture or the Commissioner's designee and grant judicial appeal of final orders of the Commissioner or the Commissioner's designee.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB170/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB170.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1052623,"bill_number":"SR83","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ellis W. Shelton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ellis W. Shelton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR83/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR83.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1052633,"bill_number":"SR81","title":"Confirm the appointment of Robert L. Swisher as commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Robert L. Swisher as commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR81/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR81.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052641,"bill_number":"HB171","title":"AN ACT relating to budget forms.","description":"Amend KRS 48.040, relating to budget forms, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB171/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB171.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1052651,"bill_number":"HB174","title":"AN ACT relating to livestock, poultry, or fish disease control.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 246.010 to add a definition for \"fish\"; amend definition for \"agriculture\" and \"livestock\"; remove definition for \"structure\"; make grammatical and technical corrections; amend KRS 257.010 to add definition for \"farmed cervids\"; change the name of \"national animal identification system\" to \"federal animal identification program\"; amend definition of \"poultry\" to include ratites; make grammatical and technical corrections; amend KRS 257.020, 257.080, and 257.140 to make grammatical and technical corrections; amend KRS 257.030, 257.040, 257.070, 257.110, and 257.170 to remove reference of \"animal\" and replace with \"livestock, poultry, or fish\"; clarify quarantine procedures related to communicable diseases; amend KRS 257.050 and 257.060 to clarify quarantine procedures related to communicable diseases; amend KRS 257.100, 257.110, and 257.160 to clarify procedures for the euthanization of animals; amend KRS 257.105 to clarify procedures for unclaimed livestock held by a veterinarian; amend KRS 257.120 to clarify indemnities for euthanized livestock, poultry, or fish; amend KRS 257.180 to clarify the restrictions on livestock disease producing agents or diagnostic equipment; amend KRS 257.210 and 257.230 to clarify terms related to the appointment and duties of the state veterinarian; amend KRS 257.240 and 257.250 to clarify terms related to the appointment and duties of the deputy state veterinarian; amend KRS 257.460, 257.470, 257.552, and 257.990 to conform; amend KRS 257.497 to delete references of \"national animal identification system\" and replace with \"federal animal identification program\"; make grammatical and technical corrections; repeal KRS 247.870, 257.270, 257.300, 257.315, 257.320, 257.330, 257.340, 257.350, 257.360, 257.370, 257.380, 257.390, 257.400, 257.410, 257.420, 257.430, 257.440, and 257.450.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB174/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB174.htm","sponsor":"Matt Castlen"},
{"bill_id":1052659,"bill_number":"SR78","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Lelia Annette \"Lee\" VanHoose to the Parole Board for a term expiring March 1, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Lelia Annette \"Lee\" VanHoose to the Parole Board for a term expiring March 1, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR78/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR78.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052667,"bill_number":"HB166","title":"AN ACT relating to medical cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish protections for cardholders; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; clarify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; clarify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; require establishment of a Cannabis Enforcement Program by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to enforce the department's duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, single-serving limits for THC content, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action with the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish excise taxes of 10% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling directly to a compassion center; establish excise taxes of 5% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling to a distributor; establish excise taxes of 5% for a distributor selling to a compassion center; direct that 80% of revenues go to the administration of the medical cannabis trust fund for the operation of the Cannabis Enforcement Program; direct that 20% of revenues go to the local medical cannabis trust fund for enforcement of medical cannabis laws, medical cannabis licensing, hiring of drug recognition experts, local evidence-based drug rehabilitation projects, or educational activities within local jails; establish the medical cannabis trust fund and the local cannabis trust fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"discharge petition filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB166/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB166.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1052677,"bill_number":"HR55","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kelly Dale Franklin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kelly Dale Franklin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR55/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR55.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1052685,"bill_number":"SR85","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the Senate.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR85/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR85.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1052696,"bill_number":"SR77","title":"Confirm the appointment of Talina Rose Mathews to the Public Service Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Talina Rose Mathews to the Public Service Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR77/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR77.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052704,"bill_number":"HR51","title":"Recognize January 11, 2018, as Donate Life Kentucky Day.","description":"Recognize January 11, 2018, as Donate Life Kentucky Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR51/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR51.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1052713,"bill_number":"HR58","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Teresa Jane Walker Wilson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Teresa Jane Walker Wilson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR58/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR58.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1052720,"bill_number":"SB77","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for rescue squad employees.","description":"Amend KRS 39F.170 to require that rescue squad members be covered under workers' compensation when rendering first aid because the rescue squad members are required by the authorizing statute to provide such aid.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB77/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB77.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1052725,"bill_number":"SR87","title":"Honor Tim Cooley upon his resignation as Captain of the Floyd County Rescue Squad and as a member of the Prestonsburg City Council.","description":"Honor Tim Cooley upon his resignation as Captain of the Floyd County Rescue Squad and as a member of the Prestonsburg City Council.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR87/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR87.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1052731,"bill_number":"HR57","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Preston Glenn Miller.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Preston Glenn Miller.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR57/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR57.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1052741,"bill_number":"HR53","title":"Honor Dr. Marvin D. Mills.","description":"Honor Dr. Marvin D. Mills.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR53/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR53.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1052751,"bill_number":"HB173","title":"AN ACT relating to branch budget recommendations.","description":"Amend KRS 48.100, relating to branch budget recommendations, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB173/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB173.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1052760,"bill_number":"HB169","title":"AN ACT relating to gang violence prevention and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 506 to define \"criminal gang\" and \"pattern of criminal gang activity\"; repeal and reenact KRS 506.140 to enumerate what constitutes criminal gang recruitment in the first, second, and third degree; amend KRS 506.120 to define \"criminal gang syndicate\" and associated penalties for defendants convicted of certain offenses committed while acting as a criminal gang syndicate; amend KRS 506.150 to revise evidence that is corroborative of the existence of a gang or gang membership; create new sections of KRS Chapter 506 to require that anyone who is found to be a member of a criminal gang at the time of commission of a felony, and who is subsequently convicted of a felony that puts the public at risk, shall be sentenced to a penalty that is one class higher than the penalty provision pertaining to the felony offense he or she was convicted of, unless the person is determined to be a persistent felony offender; establish a cause of action for a person harmed by a criminal gang or criminal gang member; create a new section of KRS Chapter 506 to state that property used by a gang or gang member in the commission of the crime shall be forfeited and disposed of in accordance with KRS 218A.405 to 218A.460; provide that this Act shall be known as the Gang Violence Prevention Act; encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to create a statewide gang violence prevention database; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 202)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB169/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB169.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1052768,"bill_number":"SR84","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kenneth Lynn Milby.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kenneth Lynn Milby.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR84/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR84.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1052776,"bill_number":"SR82","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Michael Alvey as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring January 5, 2022.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Michael Alvey as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring January 5, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR82/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR82.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1052786,"bill_number":"HR56","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the House of Representatives to delete Rule 23A in its entirety; to reassign duties of the Clerk and the Legislative Research Commission; and to clarify how members are appointed to committees.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Regular Session of the House of Representatives to delete Rule 23A in its entirety; to reassign duties of the Clerk and the Legislative Research Commission; and to clarify how members are appointed to committees.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted 90-0","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR56/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR56.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1052792,"bill_number":"HB167","title":"AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.","description":"Amend KRS 405.075 to establish a definition and allow the use of a \"newborn safety device\" related to the anonymous surrendering of a newborn infant in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 152)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB167/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB167.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1052798,"bill_number":"HR52","title":"Adjourn in honor of Howard William Fryman, Sr., on the occasion of his 99th birthday.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Howard William Fryman, Sr., on the occasion of his 99th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR52/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR52.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1052805,"bill_number":"HR59","title":"Urge the owners of KentuckyOne Health and the Medical Center Jewish South Hospital in Shepherdsville to ceremoniously recognize the contributions of Ms. Linda and Mr. Larry Belcher by renaming the hospital in their honor.","description":"Urge the owners of KentuckyOne Health and the Medical Center Jewish South Hospital in Shepherdsville to ceremoniously recognize the contributions of Ms. Linda and Mr. Larry Belcher by renaming the hospital in their honor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-10","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR59/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR59.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":1052813,"bill_number":"HB176","title":"AN ACT relating to fee disclosures by licensed ambulance providers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require ambulance providers to post fee schedules and provide them to beneficiaries; require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to assess a fee of $150 for failure to post a fee schedule and modifications to the fee schedule; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 79)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB176/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB176.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1057430,"bill_number":"HR67","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Heather McMillian.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Heather McMillian.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR67/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR67.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1057442,"bill_number":"SB79","title":"AN ACT relating to surprise billing.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define \"balance billing,\" \"cost sharing,\" \"emergency health care services,\" \"emergency medical condition,\" \"health care service,\" \"insured, maximum allowable cost,\" and \"usual and customary rate\"; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to collect information from insurers regarding billed charges, and either to select a nonprofit to distribute the information to or to publish the information annually on its Web site; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define unanticipated out-of-network care, and to require an insurer to reimburse for unanticipated out-of-network care at the usual and customary rate for the service; prohibit any lower reimbursement; prohibit balance billing from a provider who has been reimbursed in accordance with this section; allow a provider to bill for any applicable cost-sharing requirements owed by the insured; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB79/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB79.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1057454,"bill_number":"HR69","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR69/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR69.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1057467,"bill_number":"HR64","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Captain Arnold Carter.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Captain Arnold Carter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR64/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR64.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1057481,"bill_number":"HJR66","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect a sign on United States Route 150 at the Boyle County/ Lincoln County line that reads \"Home of Roby Mullins 2017 State Overall Archery Champion\" and erect signage to be in place for one year from the date of its placement.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect a sign on United States Route 150 at the Boyle County/ Lincoln County line that reads \"Home of Roby Mullins 2017 State Overall Archery Champion\" and erect signage to be in place for one year from the date of its placement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR66/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR66.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1057493,"bill_number":"HR60","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gary Wayne Keen II.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gary Wayne Keen II.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR60/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR60.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1057504,"bill_number":"SR88","title":"A resolution declaring February 26 through March 4, 2018, as Eating Disorder Awareness Week in Kentucky, in conjunction with the observance of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.","description":"A resolution declaring February 26 through March 4, 2018, as Eating Disorder Awareness Week in Kentucky, in conjunction with the observance of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR88/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR88.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1057518,"bill_number":"HR63","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jason Channing Tackett.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jason Channing Tackett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR63/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR63.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1057531,"bill_number":"SB78","title":"AN ACT relating to electricians.","description":"Amend KRS 227A.060 to require the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to administer its electrician licensing examination; allow an applicant to sit for the electrician licensing examination if the applicant has four years of experience or two years of experience plus an acceptable training course in electrical work; create a nonrenewable two-year provisional electrician license; require an applicant for a provisional license to have at least six years of verifiable experience since age 16; establish how a provisional license holder may become a licensed electrician; allow a former provisional license holder to apply for regular licensure as an electrician.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 186)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB78/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB78.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1057545,"bill_number":"HB186","title":"Jan 24-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 24-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB186/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB186.htm","sponsor":"Matt Castlen"},
{"bill_id":1057557,"bill_number":"HB191","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection in eye care.","description":"Amend KRS 367.680 to define terms; amend KRS 367.681 to add requirements for prescriptions for visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.683 and 367.684 to make applicable to all contact lens and visual aid glasses sellers and dispensers; amend KRS 367.685 to require fitting based on ocular health; amend KRS 367.686 and 367.687 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to set requirements for performance and operation of assessment mechanisms for contact lenses and visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.688 and 367.690 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; increase the fine for violations to $11,000; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to provide that those sections may be cited as the Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 44)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB191/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB191.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1057570,"bill_number":"HB181","title":"AN ACT relating to hate crimes.","description":"Amend KRS 532.031 to remove language relating to an offense committed as a result of a hate crime because of the individual's actual or perceived employment as a city, county, state, or federal peace officer, member of an organized fire department, or emergency medical services personnel; remove language defining \"emergency medical services personnel.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB181/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB181.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1057583,"bill_number":"HB182","title":"AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB182/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB182.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1057595,"bill_number":"HB194","title":"AN ACT relating to welding safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB194/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB194.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1057607,"bill_number":"SR89","title":"Honoring John Holiday for his exemplary service to the Commonwealth and the nation.","description":"Honoring John Holiday for his exemplary service to the Commonwealth and the nation.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR89/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR89.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1057623,"bill_number":"HB187","title":"AN ACT relating to dyslexia.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"dyslexia\" and \"qualified dyslexia screening tool\"; require the Department of Education to make available a dyslexia toolkit that includes guidance on the instruction of students displaying characteristics of dyslexia; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky Collaborative Center for Literacy Development to update professional development for teachers related to dyslexia; require each local board of education to develop policies for identifying and assisting students in kindergarten through grade three with dyslexia and other learning disabilities; require school districts to report data to the Department of Education regarding dyslexia screening and results; require teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia; require the commissioner of education to select three school districts to serve as dynamic laboratories of learning. Amend KRS 158.305 to revise the definition of \"dyslexia\"; require local boards of education to develop policies related to the implementation of response-to-intervention; require the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics, to report to the Interim Joint Committees on Education and Health and Welfare by November 30 of each year regarding school districts' implementation of response-to-intervention.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 88)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB187/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB187.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1057636,"bill_number":"SJR90","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of KY 29 in Jessamine County in honor and memory of Harlan H. Veal, Sr.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of KY 29 in Jessamine County in honor and memory of Harlan H. Veal, Sr.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR90/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR90.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1057649,"bill_number":"HR68","title":"Urge the General Assembly to give consolidated local governments the power to enact local legislation related to certain issues on firearms and ammunition governance.","description":"Urge the General Assembly to give consolidated local governments the power to enact local legislation related to certain issues on firearms and ammunition governance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR68/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR68.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1057666,"bill_number":"SJR92","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 39 in Jessamine County in honor and memory of Nancy Stacy Breiner.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 39 in Jessamine County in honor and memory of Nancy Stacy Breiner.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR92/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR92.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1057677,"bill_number":"HR61","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Brittney Gorman Parrish.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Brittney Gorman Parrish.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR61/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR61.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1057689,"bill_number":"HB188","title":"AN ACT relating to the security of personal information and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach pursuant to the Act or has been notified of a free security freeze, and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; to prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach or of a free security freeze; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide five years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.730 to extend definitions to KRS 365.732; to conform the definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; amend KRS 365.732 to define \"encrypt\" and \"security breach\"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and email accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request for three consumer reports from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to exempt certain persons from the definition of \"nonaffiliated third parties\"; conform the definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, KRS 61.933, 61.934,171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB188/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB188.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1057704,"bill_number":"HB180","title":"AN ACT relating to charter schools.","description":"Repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB180/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB180.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1057718,"bill_number":"HB185","title":"AN ACT relating to death-in-line-of-duty benefits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 16.505 to include in the definition of \"dependent child,\" solely as it applies to a member who dies as a direct result of an act in line of duty or a duty-related injury, a disabled child of any age; define \"monthly average pay\" to mean the higher of a member's final rate of pay or average monthly creditable compensation earned during the deceased member's last 12 months of employment; amend KRS 16.601 and 61.621 to increase minimum act in line of duty or duty-related death benefits payable to the surviving spouse of a member of any of the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems from 25% to 75% of the deceased member's monthly average pay and, if there is no surviving spouse, to the dependent children at the rate of 50% for one dependent child, 65% for two dependent children, and 75% for three or more dependent children; amend KRS 61.510 to define \"monthly average pay\"; amend KRS 61.542 to provide that the surviving spouse shall supersede all previously designated beneficiaries in the case of line-of-duty death benefits payable from the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems unless the member files a valid beneficiary designation form after marriage to his or her spouse; amend KRS 61.702 to ensure full and timely hospital and medical insurance benefits for the spouse and dependents of a member who died as a direct result of an act in line of duty or duty-related injury; amend KRS 78.510 to define \"monthly average pay\"; provide that an eligible surviving spouse of a member who died as a result of an act line of duty or duty-related injury prior to the effective date of the Act shall receive the increased line of duty or duty-related death benefits; provide that a surviving spouse of a hazardous duty member who died as a result of an act in line of duty on or after January 1, 2017, who was ineligible for the minimum monthly death benefits because he or she was not named beneficiary shall be eligible for the benefits provided by this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 151)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB185/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB185.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1057730,"bill_number":"HB190","title":"AN ACT relating to district health departments.","description":"Amend KRS 212.840 to target funding for district health departments.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB190/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB190.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1057741,"bill_number":"HB179","title":"AN ACT proposing to repeal Section 233A of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to marriage.","description":"Repeal Section 233A of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to marriage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB179/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB179.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1057755,"bill_number":"HR62","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of B.B. Young.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of B.B. Young.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR62/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR62.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1057769,"bill_number":"HB183","title":"AN ACT relating to personal property and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 235.070 to remove the exemption for federally documented vessels from registration requirements; amend KRS 235.120 conform; amend KRS 235.125 to require that vessels documented by the Coast Guard display a number and validation sticker; amend KRS 235.210 to require documented vessels to register with the county clerk; amend KRS 235.230 to remove the requirement that owners of a marina hold the title for a boat moored there for longer than 24 hours; amend KRS 376.270 to prohibit marinas from interfering with a boat owner's right to take possession of the boat; repeal KRS 376.272; EMERGENCY; provide a January 1, 2019, delayed effective date for certain sections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB183/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB183.htm","sponsor":"Phil Moffett"},
{"bill_id":1057781,"bill_number":"HB189","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of firearms and ammunition.","description":"Amend KRS 65.870 to permit a city of the first class or home rule class, county, urban-county government, charter county, consolidated local government, or unified local government to enact local legislation related to certain issues on firearms and ammunition governance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB189/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB189.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1057795,"bill_number":"HB177","title":"AN ACT relating to certified public accountants.","description":"Amend KRS 325.220 to define \"peer review\" as designed to promote quality in \"accounting and auditing services\"; change \"peer review committee\" to \" sponsoring organization\"; amend KRS 325.301 to allow an out-of-state CPA firm to perform attest services within Kentucky; exempt out-of-state CPA firms from paying the initial application fee; require firms to grant the Accountancy Board access to peer review documents maintained in Facilitated State Board Access; allow the board to appoint a peer review oversight committee to monitor the peer review program; amend KRS 325.340 to allow the board to privately reprimand CPAs and CPA firms; allow CPAs and CPA firms to apply to have minor violations removed from their professional record after ten years; limit a licensee from having his or her record expunged more than once.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 24)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB177/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB177.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1057808,"bill_number":"HB193","title":"AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree.","description":"Amend KRS 508.025, relating to the Class D felony of assault in the third degree, to add intentionally causing a peace officer to come in contact with bodily fluids or bodily waste to the elements of the crime; increase the criminal penalty to a Class C felony for contact with fluids which could transmit a communicable disease; and clarify that the existing provisions regarding detention facilities apply to adult and juvenile facilities.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 189)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB193/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB193.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":1057822,"bill_number":"HB11","title":"AN ACT relating to power of attorney.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 457 to adopt portions of the Uniform Power of Attorney Act of 2006; establish definitions for the chapter; provide that the chapter shall apply to all powers of attorney except for certain exceptions; provide that powers of attorney are durable and for their execution; provide a choice-of-law rule for determining the law that governs the meaning and effect of the power of attorney; detail the relationship between a power of attorney and a conservator or guardian; outline when a power of attorney becomes effective; detail when a power of attorney terminates; establish default rules for coagents and successor agents; allow for the reimbursement and compensation of an agent; detail how an agent accepts his or her appointment; outline an agent's duties; provide that a principal can lower the standard of liability for an agent with a few exceptions; establish a list of persons that may petition the court to review the agent's conduct; address when an agent is liable; detail how an agent can resign; provide protections for persons who accept a power of attorney in good faith; impose liability for refusal to accept a power of attorney; clarify that the principles of law and equity supplement the chapter unless displaced by a provision of the chapter; provide that the remedies under the chapter are not exclusive and do not abrogate any other cause of action or remedy; amend KRS 367.93103, relating to funeral planning declarations, to clarify that a funeral declaration included in a will or power of attorney does not invalidate the will or power of attorney; amend KRS 372.140 and 387.530 to conform; repeal KRS 386.093, relating to the effect of incapacity or death on a power of attorney.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 185)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB11/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB11.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":1057834,"bill_number":"HB184","title":"AN ACT relating to state and federal wage and hour law conformity.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to clarify that employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act federal wage and hour law that are comparable or greater should apply over KRS Chapter 337; amend KRS 337.285 to bring into conformity with federal overtime law; amend KRS 337.385 to conform the statute of limitations to federal law.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB184/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB184.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1057846,"bill_number":"HB192","title":"AN ACT relating to an exemption of income taxation for military pensions.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude United States military retirees' pension income from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and ending before January 1, 2023; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB192/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB192.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1057860,"bill_number":"HJR65","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jennifer B. Skaggs Memorial Highway in Rowan County and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jennifer B. Skaggs Memorial Highway in Rowan County and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR65/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR65.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1057874,"bill_number":"SR91","title":"Recognize February 9, 2018, as Homeschool Day at the Capitol.","description":"Recognize February 9, 2018, as Homeschool Day at the Capitol.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR91/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR91.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1057886,"bill_number":"HB178","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA and making an appropriation therefor.","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 require the removal and destruction of a DNA sample, DNA record, or any other identifiable information of a person from the DNA database identification system if the person's arrest or conviction that led to the taking of the DNA sample or inclusion of the DNA record resulted in an acquittal, a dismissal, a conviction for only nonfelony offenses, or were dismissed-diverted; amend KRS 64.060 to establish a $5 payment from the State Treasury to the collecting agency for each DNA sample collected; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB178/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB178.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1057898,"bill_number":"HR71","title":"Recognize June 27, 2018, as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize June 27, 2018, as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR71/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR71.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1057909,"bill_number":"HR70","title":"Recognize March as Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.","description":"Recognize March as Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR70/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR70.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1060862,"bill_number":"HJR72","title":"Designate Mershon's Bridge and the John E. Woodruff Memorial Highway in Trigg County.","description":"Designate Mershon's Bridge and the John E. Woodruff Memorial Highway in Trigg County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR72/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR72.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1060869,"bill_number":"HB195","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":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB195/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB195.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1060877,"bill_number":"HB196","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 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 that 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":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB196/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB196.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1060884,"bill_number":"SJR96","title":"Designate the H. Gordon Martin Memorial Highway in Boone and Kenton Counties.","description":"Designate the H. Gordon Martin Memorial Highway in Boone and Kenton Counties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR96/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR96.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1060891,"bill_number":"HJR74","title":"Provide that the General Assembly shall adopt the last four years of the six year road plan as a joint resolution.","description":"Provide that the General Assembly shall adopt the last four years of the six year road plan as a joint resolution.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 161)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR74/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR74.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1060899,"bill_number":"SB81","title":"AN ACT relating to erroneous payments to the Kentucky Retirement Systems.","description":"Amend KRS 16.543, 61.543, and 78.615 to provide that, if the Kentucky Retirement Systems determines that employee contributions were made in error more than five years following the date the contributions were first made, the systems shall pay the member interest on any refunded contributions at the actuarially assumed rate of return; amend KRS 61.685 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB81/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB81.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1060906,"bill_number":"HB202","title":"AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.","description":"Set out the 2018-2020 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 167)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB202/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB202.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1060913,"bill_number":"SR93","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sophia Garrard Stivers.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sophia Garrard Stivers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR93/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR93.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1060923,"bill_number":"HR73","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Wesley \"Wes\" Strader.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Wesley \"Wes\" Strader.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR73/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR73.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1060930,"bill_number":"SR95","title":"Recognize the chiropractic profession as the first line of treatment in an effort to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth in a manner that deters the use of opioids.","description":"Recognize the chiropractic profession as the first line of treatment in an effort to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth in a manner that deters the use of opioids.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR95/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR95.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1060937,"bill_number":"HB200","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2017-2018: $7,018,500, 2018-2019: $1,704,291,300, 2019-2020: $1,655,441,200; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2018-2019: $31,672,600, 2019-2020: $32,384,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2018-2019: $4,885,519,300, 2019-2020: $4,885,920,600; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2018-2019: $630,653,700, 2019-2020: $635,306,400; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2018-2019: $272,522,400, 2019-2020: $280,337,000; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2018-2019: $932,955,700, 2019-2020: $962,132,700; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2017-2018: $12,064,200, 2018-2019: $13,902,025,100, 2019-2020: $14,153,724,700; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2017-2018: $22,281,300, 2018-2019: $1,279,407,200, 2019-2020: $1,315,928,100; appropriate to the Labor Cabinet: 2018-2019: $221,768,700, 2019-2020: $221,427,400; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2018-2019: $66,174,600, 2019-2020: $66,486,800; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2018-2019: $7,834,090,600, 2019-2020: $8,200,114,600; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2018-2019: $123,723,400, 2019-2020: $122,273,100; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2017-2018: $8,831,600, 2018-2019: $258,238,600, 2019-2020: $261,409,800; appropriate to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund: 2018-2019: $62,414,100, 2019-2020: $183,378,000; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2017-2018 $16,500,000, 2018-2019: $2,804,425,500, 2019-2020: $342,579,500; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 169)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB200/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB200.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1060945,"bill_number":"HB197","title":"AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on maternity leave.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide six weeks of paid leave for maternity leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid maternity leave.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB197/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB197.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1060952,"bill_number":"SR94","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eric Stephen Reed.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eric Stephen Reed.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR94/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR94.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1060959,"bill_number":"HB201","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"The Transportation Cabinet Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, and Road Fund $2,338,992,800 in fiscal year 2018-2019 and $2,318,218,000 in fiscal year 2019-2020 for operating costs; appropriate from Road Fund and Investment Income for various capital projects; require the Secretary of the Transportation Cabinet to produce a document detailing the 2018-2020 Biennial Highway Construction Program and the Highway Preconstruction Program; provide debt service to the General Administration and Support budget unit; allow reallocation of appropriations among budget units; allow the Transportation Cabinet to receive funds and services for the Adopt-A-Highway Litter Program; provide funds for Aviation's operational costs; provide debt service to the Aviation budget unit; provide funds for Economic Development Road lease-rental payments; provide that no portion of the revenues to the state Road Fund accrue to the Debt Payment Acceleration Fund account; provide debt service for Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle (GARVEE) Bonds; provide funds for the State-Supported Construction Program, Biennial Highway Construction Program, Highway Construction Contingency Account, and the Kentucky Pride Fund; authorize projects in the 2016-2018 Biennial Highway Construction Plan to continue into the 2018-2020 biennium; provide no Road Fund appropriation for the Kentucky Transportation Center; authorize the Transportation Cabinet to match federal highway moneys; prioritize projects should any additional federal highway moneys become available; authorize the Transportation Cabinet to continue the Cash Management Plan and to make programmatic adjustments; provide for carry forward of any unexpended Road Fund appropriations in the Highways budget unit for various programs; provide for the transfer of Road Fund resources for judgments; authorize the Transportation Cabinet to maximize the use of Toll Credits; provide funds for the County Road Aid Program, the Rural Secondary Program, the Municipal Road Aid Program, and the Energy Recovery Road Fund; provide debt service to the Vehicle Regulation budget unit; provide for Capital Construction Fund appropriations and reauthorizations; provide for the expiration of existing line-item capital construction projects; authorize various capital projects; specify funds transfers.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 208)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB201/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB201.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1060967,"bill_number":"HB198","title":"AN ACT relating to government contracts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 45A.690 to 45A.725 to establish standards and rules for the Attorney General when awarding contingency fee personal service contracts for legal services; require the Attorney General to make written findings of the need for a contingency fee contract; set limits on the amount of the contingency fee; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to post information regarding the contract on its Web site; require the contractor to maintain certain records; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Attorney General to submit a report on all contingency fee contracts to the Government Contract Review Committee by September 1 of each year; amend KRS 45A.695 to require the Attorney General to participate in discussions with contingency fee offerors to determine their qualifications; amend KRS 15.100 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 87)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB198/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB198.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1060974,"bill_number":"HB203","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The Judicial Branch Budget: appropriate $440,265,200 in fiscal year 2018-2019 and $445,291,600 in fiscal year 2019-2020 from the General Fund, Restricted Funds, and Federal Funds; provide General Fund moneys for pay equity initiative; provide General Fund moneys for defined calculations; provide General Fund moneys to replace Federal Funds; provide that funds in the Court Operations and Administration appropriation unit carry forward; provide that if the Supreme Court retains the 2008 increase in civil filing fees, the additional income, not to exceed $5,000,000 in each fiscal year, shall be deposited in a trust and agency account for court operations; provide General Fund moneys for local facility assessments; provide General Fund moneys for increased CERS rates on janitorial and maintenance staff in judicial centers and courthouses; provide funds to compensate local units of government for providing court space and for costs incurred in the development of local court facilities; provide that funds in the Local Facilities Fund carry forward; provide that funds in the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund carry forward; provide funds for actuarial-assessed judicial retirement benefits; detail project scope and use allowance payments for Bath, Butler, Crittenden, Jessamine, and Jefferson County court houses; authorize lease purchase of a Court of Appeals office building in Franklin County; provide General Fund support for use allowance payments for Jefferson County; defer General Fund support for operating costs, annualized use allowance payments, and nonrecurring furniture and equipment costs for Bath, Butler, Crittenden, and Jessamine Counties to the 2020-2022 fiscal biennium; authorize leases; clarify that nothing in this bill shall reduce funding of court facility projects authorized by the General Assembly; provide that if a court facility project is occupied and use allowance funding is insufficient that use allowance payments must be approved from the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund, or if funds are not available in the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund, the use allowance payments shall be deemed a necessary government expense; provide the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts with expenditure authority; provide for severability of budget provisions and priority of individual appropriations; declare that KRS 48.312 controls duplicate appropriations; clarify that KRS 48.313 controls when a total or subtotal of the bill conflicts with a sum of the appropriations of which it consists; provide that any unexpended balance remaining in the Court's Restricted Funds or Federal Funds accounts carry forward; provide for the final budget document; provide for the transferability of funds; provide for appropriations revisions; include funds for trial commissioner salaries as provided for in the Judicial Branch Budget Recommendation; provide that issuance of paychecks scheduled for June 30, 2018, June 30, 2019, and June 30, 2020, shall not be issued prior to July 1, 2018, July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020; provide for participation in any Budget Reduction Plan or Surplus Expenditure Plan.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-27","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 209)","last_action_date":"2018-04-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB203/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB203.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1060981,"bill_number":"HB199","title":"AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-16","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB199/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB199.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1062046,"bill_number":"HB206","title":"Feb 28-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 28-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB206/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB206.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1062056,"bill_number":"HR84","title":"Urge Congress to enact promise zone legislation and incentives for certain counties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Urge Congress to enact promise zone legislation and incentives for certain counties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR84/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR84.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1062067,"bill_number":"HR77","title":"Recognize the Survivors Council.","description":"Recognize the Survivors Council.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR77/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR77.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1062079,"bill_number":"SR97","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Wesley \"Wes\" Strader.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Wesley \"Wes\" Strader.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR97/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR97.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1062089,"bill_number":"HJR78","title":"Designate the H. Gordon Martin Memorial Highway in Boone and Kenton Counties.","description":"Designate the H. Gordon Martin Memorial Highway in Boone and Kenton Counties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR78/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR78.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1062103,"bill_number":"HJR79","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 100 in Allen County in memory of Jeffrey P. Anderson and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 100 in Allen County in memory of Jeffrey P. Anderson and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR79/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR79.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":1062116,"bill_number":"HB6","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of a tax credit to promote investments in rural Kentucky businesses and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish a new tax credit against the taxes imposed on insurance companies and financial institutions, for contributions made by them into rural growth funds which make investments in certain businesses principally operating in certain areas of the state; declare findings and the purpose of the credit; define terms; require an entity to follow a process to apply for certification as a rural growth fund, and for investors in that entity to receive tax credits awarded by the Department of Revenue; allow the department to issue $60,000,000 in tax credits; provide credit sunset terms and other conditions for participating in the program and for claiming the credit; provide for revocation of tax credits; allow the department to audit rural growth funds; limit any liability of the Commonwealth in regard to rural growth funds or investments made by them; require various reports to be filed with the department and the Legislative Research Commission to enable evaluations of the credit program; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Kentucky Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2018.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"floor amendments (9-title) and (10) filed, (11) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB6/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB6.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1062126,"bill_number":"HB208","title":"AN ACT relating to federal law enforcement officers.","description":"Amend KRS 61.365, relating to federal peace officers who have been granted Kentucky peace officer powers, to add Veterans Health Administration law enforcement officers of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"reassigned to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB208/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB208.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1062140,"bill_number":"SB86","title":"AN ACT relating to capital projects.","description":"Amend KRS 45.750 to increase the dollar minimum from $600,000 to $1,000,000 for the definition of \"capital projects\" for entities other than institutions of higher education.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 20)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB86/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB86.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1062152,"bill_number":"HB209","title":"AN ACT relating to the possession of firearms by persons found to have committed hate crimes.","description":"Create a new Class D felony in KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit people convicted of a hate crime from possessing firearms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB209/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB209.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1062164,"bill_number":"SB90","title":"AN ACT relating to the law enforcement and firefighters foundation programs, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15.420 to differentiate between a local police officer and a state police officer and to further define which state employees are state police officers; amend KRS 15.460 to increase the annual supplement for each qualified police officer to $4,000, beginning July 1, 2018, to provide each unit of government an administrative expense reimbursement in an amount equal to 7.65% of the total annual supplement received greater than $3,100 for each qualified local police officer, but not more than a total of $525,000 for each fiscal year, to provide that a conservation officer is a participant in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Program Fund but require that the annual training stipend disbursed to a conservation officer shall be paid from the game and fish fund; amend KRS 95A.250 to increase the annual supplement for each qualified professional firefighter to $4,000, beginning July 1, 2018, and to provide each unit of government an administrative expense reimbursement in an amount equal to 7.65% of the total annual supplement received greater than $3,100 for each qualified professional firefighter, but not more than a total of $250,000 for each fiscal year; amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the allotment to certain volunteer fire departments to $11,000 annually to each qualifying department; amend KRS 150.150 to allow funds in the game and fish fund to be used to pay the annual supplement to conservation officers; make various conforming amendments; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB90/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB90.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1062175,"bill_number":"SB89","title":"AN ACT relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.011 to eliminate the Controlled Substance Formulary Development Committee; amend KRS 314.042 to permit advanced practice registered nurses to enter into a collaborative agreement for prescriptive authority for controlled substances with a collaborating advanced practice nurse practitioner or a physician and to permit advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances without a collaborative agreement after four years; amend KRS 314.193 to assign to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Council the responsibility to make recommendations to the Board of Nursing regarding limitations on prescriptions for controlled substances written by advanced practice registered nurses and to review continuing education requirements for controlled substances; amend KRS 314.196 to clarify qualifications for members of the Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee and to clarify the committee's responsibilities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB89/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB89.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1062185,"bill_number":"HR82","title":"Recognize State Employee Recognition Day.","description":"Recognize State Employee Recognition Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR82/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR82.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1062198,"bill_number":"HR76","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bart Ross Elder.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bart Ross Elder.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR76/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR76.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1062209,"bill_number":"SB85","title":"AN ACT relating to notaries public.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 423 to provide that the Secretary of State shall issue a new certificate reflecting a notary's change of name upon receipt of an application and proper documentation.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB85/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB85.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1062224,"bill_number":"SB84","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 that a person may request expungement of the record of his or her DNA in certain enumerated circumstances; amend KRS 64.060 to establish a $5 payment from the State Treasury to the collecting agency for each DNA sample collected; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB84/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB84.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1062235,"bill_number":"SB83","title":"AN ACT relating to investigations of financial mismanagement.","description":"Amend KRS 45.131 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission to investigate any alleged mismanagment of any of the affairs of the state by any current or former officer, employee, or governing body responsible for carrying out any state function or the management of state funds; amend KRS 45.142 to add KRS Chapter 45A, the Model Procurement Code, to those chapters for which the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission, on behalf of their respective departments, shall have certain investigative powers to enforce.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB83/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB83.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1062248,"bill_number":"SR98","title":"Adjourn in loving memory of Joseph M. Jones.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory of Joseph M. Jones.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR98/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR98.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1062257,"bill_number":"HR75","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clarence R. \"C.R.\" Rice.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clarence R. \"C.R.\" Rice.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR75/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR75.htm","sponsor":"Larry Brown"},
{"bill_id":1062269,"bill_number":"HJR85","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet and the Economic Development Cabinet to conduct feasibility studies on the economic impact and costs of widening the Hal Rogers Parkway into four lanes from Interstate 75 to Perry County; require results to be reported to the Interim Joint Committees on Transportation and Economic Development and Tourism by October 31, 2018.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet and the Economic Development Cabinet to conduct feasibility studies on the economic impact and costs of widening the Hal Rogers Parkway into four lanes from Interstate 75 to Perry County; require results to be reported to the Interim Joint Committees on Transportation and Economic Development and Tourism by October 31, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR85/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR85.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1062283,"bill_number":"SB82","title":"AN ACT relating to the use of and disposition of auxiliary containers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 109 providing definitions of \"auxiliary container\" and \"local government\"; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 109 prohibiting local governments from adopting ordinances or regulations concerning the use, prohibition of, or taxes upon auxiliary containers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 109 exempting certain facilities and properties of local governments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"reassigned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB82/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB82.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1062295,"bill_number":"HB205","title":"AN ACT relating to charter schools.","description":"Repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB205/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB205.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1062309,"bill_number":"SB80","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis.","description":"Establish and create new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms, allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; establish limits for transfer; allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis accessories; authorize activities and operation of retail stores, consumption establishments, cultivation facilities, cannabis testing facilities, and product manufacturing facilities; prohibit smoking cannabis in public and establish a fine for violation; prohibit operation of motor vehicles while consuming cannabis and specify that existing intoxication laws are not superseded; prohibit state or local resources to be used to investigate violations of federal Controlled Substances Act that conflict with this KRS Chapter 245; specify that an employer is not required to allow consumption, workplace intoxication, possession, or transfer of cannabis; prohibit individuals under the age of 21 from entering cannabis establishments, purchasing, using, or misrepresenting his or her age; establish penalties for violation; establish a penalty for underage possession of cannabis; establish a penalty for underage cultivation of cannabis; establish requirements for personal cultivation; establish and direct the Department for Cannabis Enforcement to administrate KRS Chapter 245 and promulgate administrative regulations relating to all aspects of cannabis establishments, cannabis manufacturing, and transfer, cultivation, packaging, and health and safety requirements; restrictions on advertising, and restrictions on additives, pesticides, visitor logs, and sample testing; require promulgation of administrative regulations within 180 days; establish timeframes for the issuance of licenses; establish a licensure requirement and separate licenses; establish a license and renewal fee and license application form; establish an excise tax on cultivation facilities, processing facilities, or retail facilities; establish a trust and agency account; establish a cannabis regulation fund and recommend the direction of certain funds; establish a civil penalty for violating KRS Chapter 245, including for failing to keep written records and submitting required reports; establish a prioritization requirement for Kentucky residents; establish the legislative intent that cannabis or cannabis products not in conformity with KRS Chapter 245 are seizable as contraband; allow for local governments to prohibit the operation of cannabis businesses; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish excise taxes; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to direct the placement of excise taxes and sales taxes relating to cannabis; amend KRS 2.015 to make the cultivation, purchase, use, and possession of cannabis a higher age of majority activity; amend KRS 610.010 to make cannabis offenses under KRS Chapter 245 committed by minors under the authority of the juvenile session of the District Court; amend KRS 630.020 to grant a court jurisdiction over cannabis offenses committed by children; amend KRS 630.120 to prohibit commitment of children over a cannabis offense; amend KRS 218A.1422 to clarify that a person is guilty of possession of marijuana when he or she has more than the possession limit established in KRS Chapter 245, and to exempt a cannabis establishment; amend KRS 218A.1423 to prohibit cultivation of more than 5 marijuana plants and to exempt cannabis establishments; amend KRS 12.020 to reflect the establishment of the Department for Cannabis Enforcement; amend KRS 12.252 to reflect the establishment of the Department for Cannabis Enforcement; establish a short title.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB80/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB80.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1062320,"bill_number":"HR83","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Creason.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Creason.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR83/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR83.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1062332,"bill_number":"HJR81","title":"Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, that limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and that limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; to state that the application be aggregated with the applications of other states limited for the purposes identified in the applications; state that the application be a continuing application until a convention is called or until the application is withdrawn by the Kentucky General Assembly.","description":"Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, that limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and that limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; to state that the application be aggregated with the applications of other states limited for the purposes identified in the applications; state that the application be a continuing application until a convention is called or until the application is withdrawn by the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-17","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR81/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR81.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1062344,"bill_number":"HB207","title":"AN ACT relating to cell phones.","description":"Amend KRS 520.010 to allow persons who are in a detention facility in a professional capacity to possess a cell phone or other personal electronic device.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 190)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB207/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB207.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1062354,"bill_number":"SR99","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Larry Bruce Franklin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Larry Bruce Franklin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR99/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR99.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1062365,"bill_number":"HR80","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon Pat Adkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon Pat Adkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR80/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR80.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1062376,"bill_number":"SB88","title":"AN ACT relating to city mandates.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to prohibit the General Assembly from imposing requirements on cities that require city expenditures or tax levies without fully funding the requirement or making the requirements contingent on city legislative body approval; exempt requirements that are the result of a federal mandate; ensure that the provisions do not affect the obligations under KRS 6.950 to 6.975.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-27","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 204)","last_action_date":"2018-04-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB88/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB88.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1063922,"bill_number":"SR103","title":"Honor the top five energy-efficient school districts in Kentucky for 2017.","description":"Honor the top five energy-efficient school districts in Kentucky for 2017.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR103/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR103.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1063953,"bill_number":"SR100","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon Pat Adkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon Pat Adkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR100/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR100.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1063981,"bill_number":"HB215","title":"AN ACT relating to voter identification.","description":"Amend KRS 117.227 to require a voter to have a picture identification card issued by a governmental or educational entity to be presented to election officers if identity is not confirmed by personal acquaintance.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB215/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB215.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1064010,"bill_number":"HB217","title":"AN ACT relating to home inspections.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require home inspectors to be granted access to all areas of a home when conducting an inspection; provide appeal to the Board of Home Inspectors'; require the inspector to notify all realtors involved in the transaction if access is denied; impose a fine not to exceed $500; stipulate that denial of reasonable access to a home inspector is grounds for termination of an offer to buy without recourse against the offeror.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB217/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB217.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1064042,"bill_number":"SR101","title":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States.","description":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR101/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR101.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1064074,"bill_number":"SR102","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Harold Glenn McElvain.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Harold Glenn McElvain.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR102/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR102.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1064105,"bill_number":"HJR88","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 10 in Greenup County in memory of Spencer T. Carter and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 10 in Greenup County in memory of Spencer T. Carter and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR88/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR88.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1064134,"bill_number":"SB92","title":"AN ACT relating to pensions for city employees.","description":"Amend KRS 90.410, 95.560, and 95.624 to allow former cities of the third class adopting a pension fund program prior to August 1, 1988, to provide an annual cost-of-living adjustment in an amount equal to the increase in the cost-of-living increase for a recipient of Social Security or the increase in the consumer price index as computed by the Department for Local Government up to the current maximum of five percent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB92/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB92.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1064166,"bill_number":"HCR87","title":"Mar 08-WITHDRAWN","description":"Mar 08-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR87/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR87.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1064195,"bill_number":"HB212","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer reporting agencies and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.3645 to allow security freezes for protected persons to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; prohibit consumer reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement or removal of a security freeze or the creation of a record for a protected person; make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to allow security freezes for consumers to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; prohibit consumer reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement, temporary lifting, or removal of a security freeze, or for providing or replacing a personal identification number or password; remove the expiration of a security freeze after seven years; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB212/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB212.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1064230,"bill_number":"HB214","title":"AN ACT relating to Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate and observe June 30 of every year as \"Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita Awareness Day.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch.100)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB214/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB214.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1064261,"bill_number":"HB211","title":"`AN ACT relating to school transportation funding and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish a school transportation funding fee of $0.03 which shall be paid by dealers on each gallon of gasoline and special fuels; provide for exemptions; require that funds received shall be deposited in the fund to support education excellence in Kentucky; amend KRS 157.330 to specify that funds received from the fee shall be calculated and distributed under the provisions of KRS 157.370; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB211/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB211.htm","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
{"bill_id":1064291,"bill_number":"HR89","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Colonel Robert Ernest Spiller.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Colonel Robert Ernest Spiller.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR89/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR89.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1064322,"bill_number":"HR91","title":"Recognize the chiropractic profession as a line of treatment in an effort to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth in a manner that deters the use of opioids.","description":"Recognize the chiropractic profession as a line of treatment in an effort to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth in a manner that deters the use of opioids.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR91/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR91.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1064352,"bill_number":"SB93","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of tobacco products.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to allow a city or county goverment to regulate the use, display, sale, or distribution of tobacco products or vapor products; repeal KRS 438.300.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB93/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB93.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1064384,"bill_number":"HB213","title":"AN ACT relating to data-sharing of prescription drug monitoring information.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.245 to allow KASPER data-sharing agreements with different types of jurisdictions.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-28","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 30)","last_action_date":"2018-03-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB213/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB213.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1064416,"bill_number":"HB216","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.810 to include selection committees established under KRS Chapters 45A and 56 as exceptions to the open meeting requirements; amend KRS 61.878 to include information identifying members of selection committees and records of the procurement processes established under KRS Chapters 45A and 56 as exceptions to the open record requirements; amend KRS 56.8169 to clarify that KRS 61.810 and 61.878 apply to the selection process for built-to-suit contracts.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"recommitted to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB216/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB216.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1064447,"bill_number":"HR90","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Philomena C. (Yochem) Wayne.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Philomena C. (Yochem) Wayne.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR90/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR90.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1064479,"bill_number":"HJR86","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Elaine \"Bae Bae\" Avanell Smith by placing signs declaring Lincoln County as \"Home of Elaine 'Bae Bae' Avanell Smith, 2017 Young Miss Kentucky, MKTA.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Elaine \"Bae Bae\" Avanell Smith by placing signs declaring Lincoln County as \"Home of Elaine 'Bae Bae' Avanell Smith, 2017 Young Miss Kentucky, MKTA.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR86/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR86.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1064510,"bill_number":"HB210","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 237.115 to allow persons with valid concealed deadly weapons licenses or temporary permits to carry concealed weapons on public postsecondary property and in buildings controlled by state and local government, except courtrooms and detention facilities; amend KRS 237.110 to allow persons with valid concealed deadly weapons licenses or temporary permits to carry concealed weapons in meetings of the General Assembly; make technical and conforming amendments.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-18","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB210/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB210.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1064540,"bill_number":"SB91","title":"AN ACT relating to city financial accountability.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.040, relating to city audits, to no longer require that paper copies of audits be sent to the Department for Local Government (DLG); increase the threshold for cities to have audits every other year from 1,000 persons to 2,000 persons; require the audit or financial statement, as applicable, to be transmitted to DLG no later than October 1 following the close of the fiscal year; maintain more stringent audit standards where may be required by law; allow enforcement of law by action in Circuit Court; create a process by which cities may apply to DLG for an extension of time to complete an audit or financial statement; set out a penalty for not completing an audit in a timely manner; amend KRS 424.220 to stipulate who the appropriate officer is to cause the publication of required financial statements; amend KRS 42.460 to conform; amend KRS 424.190 to conform to providing only an electronic copy of the audit report or financial statement to DLG.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 10)","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB91/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB91.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1065118,"bill_number":"HB219","title":"AN ACT relating to drug treatment and prevention and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund; establish administering committee membership; direct all revenues from the Commonwealth related to the drug epidemic to the fund; describe authorized fund expenditures; require fund reporting; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB219/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB219.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1065136,"bill_number":"HB224","title":"AN ACT relating to unclaimed life insurance policies.","description":"Amend KRS 304.15-420 to make Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act retroactive; require the Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to specify what constitutes a good-faith effort to confirm the death of an insured.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB224/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB224.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1065157,"bill_number":"SCR105","title":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","description":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR105/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR105.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1065178,"bill_number":"HB221","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of metal commodities.","description":"Amend KRS 189.2713 to expand the definition of \"metal commodities\" to include recyclable material used in the production of output products by metal processors.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB221/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB221.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1065202,"bill_number":"SR104","title":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","description":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR104/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR104.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1065223,"bill_number":"HR94","title":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","description":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR94/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR94.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":1065242,"bill_number":"HR92","title":"Honor Julia Pile upon receiving the inaugural Beverly Nickell Raimondo Leadership Award.","description":"Honor Julia Pile upon receiving the inaugural Beverly Nickell Raimondo Leadership Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR92/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR92.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1065264,"bill_number":"HB223","title":"AN ACT relating to public housing authorities.","description":"Amend KRS 80.030, 80.040, 80.060 relating to city public housing authorities, and KRS 80.266, relating to city-county public housing authorities, to allow a city divesting itself of authority over its public housing program to have representation on the public housing authority that has agreed to take over responsibility.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 45)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB223/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB223.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1065286,"bill_number":"HCR93","title":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","description":"Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR93/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR93.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":1065307,"bill_number":"HR95","title":"Recognize October 12, 2018, as National Farmers Day.","description":"Recognize October 12, 2018, as National Farmers Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR95/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR95.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1065329,"bill_number":"SB95","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for medically necessary fertility preservation services.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, shall include coverage for standard fertility preservation services when a necessary medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility to an insured.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB95/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB95.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1065348,"bill_number":"SB94","title":"AN ACT relating to the electronic system for monitoring scheduled drug prescriptions.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.202 to permit an employer of a practitioner, pharmacist, or other person authorized to prescribe, administer, or dispense controlled substances to request data from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services as part of a bona fide specific investigation of prescribing or dispensing practices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB94/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB94.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1065369,"bill_number":"SCR106","title":"Urge Congress and the President of the United States to enact a long-term reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.","description":"Urge Congress and the President of the United States to enact a long-term reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR106/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR106.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1065392,"bill_number":"HB218","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance coverage for autism benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-142 to remove dollar amount coverage cap; to remove age limitation on coverage; to require the coverage of all health benefit plans; to add definitions; repeal KRS 304.17A-141 and 304.17A-143.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 86)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB218/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB218.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1065413,"bill_number":"HB220","title":"AN ACT relating to marketplace contractors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 defining \"marketplace contractor\" and \"marketplace platform\" and establishing the criteria in which a marketplace contractor shall not be deemed to be an employee of a marketplace platform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 18)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB220/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB220.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1065434,"bill_number":"HB222","title":"AN ACT relating to liability for damage to property adjacent to Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission-managed lands.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define \"adjacent landowner\" and \"commission-managed lands\"; waive the sovereign immunity of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and establish the department's liability when the operations of commission-managed lands results in damages to property of an adjacent landowner; provide that a claim for damages shall be brought in the county in which the adjacent landowner's property is located, and the action shall not be removed to Franklin Circuit or District Court; provide that the Kentucky Claims Commission does not have jurisdiction over an adjacent landowner's claim for damages.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-19","last_action":"reassigned to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB222/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB222.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1067300,"bill_number":"SB96","title":"AN ACT relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","description":"Amend KRS 79.080, 216.577, and 216.935 to replace reference to the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 200.480 to require that the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs report to the Governor and the General Assembly upon request instead of biennially; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to amend material previously incorporated by reference in administrative regulations governing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through technical amendment if the amendment is prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 205.560 to remove smoking cessation treatment intervention programs from the list of medical services to be covered by Medicaid; amend KRS 205.561 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on the dispensing of prescription medication to eligible persons upon request instead of every three years; amend KRS 205.590 to eliminate the Technical Advisory Committee on Consumer Rights and Client Needs; amend KRS 205.690 to require that the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services report to the General Assembly upon request instead of during each regular session; amend KRS 205.712 to permit the Department for Income Support, Child Support Enforcement to amend forms mandated by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement and previously incorporated by reference in administrative regulations by technical amendment; amend KRS 205.713, 205.802, 211.670, and 405.11 to conform; repeal KRS 194A.090, 209.400, 209.410, 209.420, 211.665, 211.674, 213.143, 218A.150, 218A.160, and 218A.170.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 112)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB96/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB96.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1067315,"bill_number":"HB229","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gaming.","description":"Amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define and permit casino gaming; provide for the oversight and control of casino gaming by an administrative body funded by license fees and taxes levied on casino gaming; prior to July 1, 2038, require 100% of the casino gaming proceeds, in excess of the amount used to pay for an oversight administrative body of casino gaming, to go to the retirement systems.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB229/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB229.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1067331,"bill_number":"SR112","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dorotha Smith Oatts.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dorotha Smith Oatts.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR112/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR112.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1067349,"bill_number":"SR115","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of George B. Wooton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of George B. Wooton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR115/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR115.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1067365,"bill_number":"HB226","title":"AN ACT relating to arrests.","description":"Amend KRS 431.015 to allow a peace officer to arrest a person for a misdemeanor violation of KRS 512.030, 512.040, and 514.030 when committed in the officer's presence; allow a peace officer to issue a citation when the officer has probable cause to believe that a misdemeanor was committed outside of his or her presence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB226/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB226.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":1067381,"bill_number":"HB231","title":"AN ACT relating to enhancement of information reported to the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to require that pharmacies collect data on persons picking up prescriptions for a Schedule II to V controlled substance on behalf of a patient; require data to be reported to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require data to be shared only with those permitted under KRS 218A.202.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB231/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB231.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1067398,"bill_number":"HB230","title":"AN ACT relating to kinship care.","description":"Amend KRS 605.120 to permanently establish a kinship care program.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB230/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB230.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1067417,"bill_number":"SR108","title":"Memorialize the forty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.","description":"Memorialize the forty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR108/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR108.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1067433,"bill_number":"HB225","title":"AN ACT relating to the advertising of opiate and opioid agonist drugs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit the advertising of opiate and opioid agonist drugs.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB225/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB225.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1067449,"bill_number":"SB98","title":"AN ACT relating to entertainment destination center licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 243.030 to create a new entertainment destination center license for counties not containing a consolidated local government or an urban-county government.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 21)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB98/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB98.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1067466,"bill_number":"SR113","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Colonel Robert Ernest Spiller.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Colonel Robert Ernest Spiller.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR113/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR113.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1067483,"bill_number":"SR116","title":"Honor Reverend Joe Phelps upon his retirement.","description":"Honor Reverend Joe Phelps upon his retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR116/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR116.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1067499,"bill_number":"HR97","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph C. Martin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph C. Martin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR97/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR97.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1067516,"bill_number":"SR111","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clifton Richard \"Rick\" Smith.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clifton Richard \"Rick\" Smith.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR111/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR111.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1067532,"bill_number":"SB101","title":"AN ACT relating to school district vacancies.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to reduce the vacancy notice required from a superintendent to the chief state school officer from 30 days to 15 days.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-04","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 105)","last_action_date":"2018-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB101/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB101.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1067552,"bill_number":"HB228","title":"AN ACT relating to physician assistants.","description":"Amend KRS 311.856 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances; amend KRS 311.858 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances; create a new section of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 to establish the Physician Assistants Controlled Substance Monitoring Committee.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB228/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB228.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1067568,"bill_number":"SR114","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Clay \"Bill\" Rice.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Clay \"Bill\" Rice.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR114/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR114.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1067585,"bill_number":"SR109","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Rebecca \"Fannie Brown\" Abell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Rebecca \"Fannie Brown\" Abell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR109/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR109.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1067601,"bill_number":"SR107","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don Lindsey.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don Lindsey.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR107/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR107.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1067618,"bill_number":"SB97","title":"AN ACT relating to municipal annexation.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 81A to provide standing to certain individuals to contest annexation of otherwise unpopulated territory; grant the city standing to contest the failed annexation election under KRS 120.250; set a limit of 2 years to contest the annexation of territory; amend KRS 65.012 to change referendum petition signature requirements to include a business or other organization as a petitioner.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 155)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB97/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB97.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1067635,"bill_number":"HB227","title":"AN ACT relating to net metering.","description":"Amend KRS 278.465 to redefine \"net metering\"; amend KRS 278.466 to set the rate of compensation for an eligible customer-generator for electricity produced that flows to the retail supplier to be equal to the most recently approved rate by the Public Service Commission for the retail electric supplier to purchase electricity on an as-available basis from qualifying facilities with design capacities of 100 kilowatts or less; allow the retail electric supplier discretion to either carry forward or pay out the customer for excess generation during a billing period; create an exemption for customer-generators taking net metering service on July 15, 2018, to allow those customers to keep their current net metering contract or tariff rate calculation until they cease to take net metering service at the eligible premises or July 15, 2043, whichever comes first; specify that the exemption does not apply to lessees, successors, assigns, or subsequent owners of eligible premises.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"recommitted to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB227/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB227.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1067651,"bill_number":"HR96","title":"Memorialize the forty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.","description":"Memorialize the forty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR96/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR96.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1067667,"bill_number":"SB99","title":"AN ACT relating to employment protections.","description":"Amend KRS 337.420 to require an employer with one or more employees to be subject to the wage discrimination requirements; amend KRS 337.423 to require no wage discrimination for what has been paid to current or past employees and prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee for discussing wages.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-22","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB99/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB99.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1067683,"bill_number":"SR110","title":"Recognize anonymous organ, tissue, and cornea donors.","description":"Recognize anonymous organ, tissue, and cornea donors.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR110/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR110.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1069264,"bill_number":"HCR100","title":"A Concurrent Resolution of the House urging the U.S. government and Army Corp of Engineers to maintain the summer pool water level in Kentucky Lake from Memorial to Labor Day.","description":"A Concurrent Resolution of the House urging the U.S. government and Army Corp of Engineers to maintain the summer pool water level in Kentucky Lake from Memorial to Labor Day.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR100/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR100.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1069274,"bill_number":"SR118","title":"Honor President Dr. Michael Benson upon Eastern Kentucky University's freeze of tuition for the 2018-2019 academic year.","description":"Honor President Dr. Michael Benson upon Eastern Kentucky University's freeze of tuition for the 2018-2019 academic year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR118/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR118.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1069284,"bill_number":"SR117","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Ford \"Chili\" Ishmael.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Ford \"Chili\" Ishmael.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR117/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR117.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1069295,"bill_number":"HB236","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of feminine hygiene products, diapers, diaper wipes, baby bottles including bottle nipples and liners, and breast pumps; apply to sales or purchases made on or after August 1, 2018, but before August 1, 2022; require Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission the amount of exemptions claimed; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to allow the Department of Revenue to provide data without breaching confidentiality; make conforming changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB236/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB236.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1069307,"bill_number":"HB233","title":"AN ACT relating to the prevailing wage.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to establish a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 336.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB233/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB233.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1069319,"bill_number":"SR119","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Dwight L. Blackburn.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Dwight L. Blackburn.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR119/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR119.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1069329,"bill_number":"HB237","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to amend definition of \"labor organization\" and delete definitions of \"employer\" and \"employee\"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; repeal KRS 65.016, KRS 336.132, and KRS 336.134.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB237/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB237.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1069340,"bill_number":"SB107","title":"AN ACT relating to mental illness.","description":"Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB107/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB107.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1069353,"bill_number":"SB103","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Amend KRS 520.070 to include school marshals as persons exempt from the prohibition against possession of a firearm on school property if authorized by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to allow for the appointment of a school marshal by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; specify that a person authorized and appointed under this section is designated as a school marshal and enumerate restrictions on school marshal's powers; provide that persons certified to act as peace officers under KRS 15.380 are exempt from restrictions; establish requirements of eligibility for a school marshal's appointment; enumerate board's or governing bodies' responsibilities; require that schools designated as school marshal sites collaborate with the Kentucky State Police and local law enforcement on safety procedures prior to appointment of a school marshal; provide limits on liability for school boards or governing bodies that appoint school marshals; establish limits on the possession, transport, deposit, or carrying of firearms by a school marshal while on school property; limit liability for school marshals for acts or omissions undertaken pursuant to this section; provide that the school marshal is responsible for expenditures related to the purchase of a firearm, ammunition, or any other associated costs; allow that a local school board or governing body may pay compensation for expenses incurred undertaking school marshal's duties or appointment requirements; specify that otherwise lawful possession of a firearm as provided under KRS 527.070 or any other state or federal law is not restricted; exclude postsecondary or higher education institutions from coverage; require that any board of a local public school district or governing body of a private or parochial school that appoints a school marshal adopt guidelines to carry out school marshal's requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB103/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB103.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1069363,"bill_number":"SB105","title":"AN ACT relating to student loans.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to forbid a licensing agency from considering the nonpayment of student loans when issuing, renewing, revoking, or suspending any license; amend KRS 164.769 and 164A.240 to conform; repeal KRS 164.772.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-24","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB105/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB105.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1069375,"bill_number":"HB234","title":"AN ACT relating to medical and nursing schools.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require all medical and nursing schools established and assisted financially by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to cease all training of any health care providers and the provision of any health care services; require all medical and nursing schools to refer citizens who are requesting advice or health care services to their state representative or state senator.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB234/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB234.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1069386,"bill_number":"HB235","title":"AN ACT relating to eliminating the abortion waiting period.","description":"Amend KRS 311.725 to delete the requirement to provide information in a physical setting 24 hours before an abortion.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB235/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB235.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1069401,"bill_number":"HR102","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stuart Powell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stuart Powell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR102/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR102.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1069412,"bill_number":"HB240","title":"AN ACT relating to sanctuary cities and universities.","description":"Amend KRS 65.133 to require local law enforcement agencies and Kentucky State Police to enforce immigration laws; define sanctuary and sanctuary policy; prohibit local governments from adopting sanctuary policies; establish hearing procedures for determination of sanctuary status; withhold state funding from sanctuaries; establish vicarious liability for local government officials of sanctuaries; prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from enrolling, employing, or contracting with illegal aliens; require postsecondary educational institutions to keep records of immigration status; withhold state funding from postsecondary educational institutions that enroll, employ, or contract with illegal aliens.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB240/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB240.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1069423,"bill_number":"HR98","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":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR98/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR98.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1069433,"bill_number":"HR101","title":"Encourage the United States Congress to pass legislation that permits the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for fair and reasonable prices on prescription drugs","description":"Encourage the United States Congress to pass legislation that permits the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for fair and reasonable prices on prescription drugs","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR101/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR101.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1069446,"bill_number":"SB102","title":"AN ACT relating to the evaluation of children for special education services.","description":"Amend KRS 157.196 to require the initial evaluation and determination of a four-year-old child's eligibility for special education services to occur within 60 calendar days of parental consent.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB102/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB102.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1069457,"bill_number":"HB238","title":"AN ACT relating to implementing Do Not Resuscitate orders in a hospital setting.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define \"Do Not Resuscitate\" or \"DNR\" order; require the signature of a patient or a family member of the patient before implementing a do not resuscitate order written by a health care provider in a hospital setting; permit a hospital to request that a patient complete a (MOST) Medical Order for Scope of Treatment form in accordance with KRS 311.621 to KRS 311.643.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB238/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB238.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1069468,"bill_number":"HR99","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Rebecca Clements Abell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Rebecca Clements Abell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR99/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR99.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1069480,"bill_number":"SB106","title":"AN ACT relating to blow drying services.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.010 to define \"blow drying services\" and \"limited beauty salon\"; amend KRS 317A.050 to establish who may be licensed to perform blow drying services in a licensed limited beauty salon; create accompanying fees; amend KRS 317A.062 to set various fees for a license to conduct blow drying services and a license to operate a limited beauty salon.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 35)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB106/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB106.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1069492,"bill_number":"HB239","title":"AN ACT relating to prevention-oriented child sexual education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to permit the establishment of age-appropriate education programs pertaining to the recognition of child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect and how to report suspected abuse; create a short title, \"Erin's Law,\" for Section 1 of this Act and KRS 156.095(7).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB239/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB239.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1069504,"bill_number":"HB232","title":"AN ACT relating to open records.","description":"Amend KRS 61.870 to make an exception for certain services or functions to the exemption from the definition of \"public agency\" that excludes services provided resulting from competitive bidding.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-23","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB232/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB232.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1069514,"bill_number":"SB104","title":"AN ACT relating to natural gas pipeline safety.","description":"Amend KRS 278.992 to ensure state penalties for violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act conform with federal penalties; amend KRS 367.4903 to define \"commission\" as the Public Service Commission for the Underground Facility Damage Prevention Act of 1994; amend KRS 367.4909 to require underground facility operators to report to the commission excavation damage to an underground facility used in the transportation of gas or hazardous liquid; amend KRS 367.4911 to conform; amend KRS 367. 4917 to authorize the commission to enforce and assess civil penalties for damages to an underground facility used in the transportation of gas or hazardous liquid.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 70)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB104/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB104.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1070649,"bill_number":"HJR104","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 204 in Whitley County \"Canadatown Road.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 204 in Whitley County \"Canadatown Road.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR104/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR104.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1070667,"bill_number":"SR123","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Daniel Harmon.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Daniel Harmon.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR123/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR123.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1070684,"bill_number":"SJR124","title":"Designate Mershon's Bridge and the John E. Woodruff Memorial Highway in Trigg County.","description":"Designate Mershon's Bridge and the John E. Woodruff Memorial Highway in Trigg County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR124/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR124.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1070701,"bill_number":"HJR105","title":"Designate the \"Dr. Wayne C. Cole Memorial Highway\" in Webster County.","description":"Designate the \"Dr. Wayne C. Cole Memorial Highway\" in Webster County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR105/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR105.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1070718,"bill_number":"HB246","title":"AN ACT relating to medication-assisted therapy in community pharmacies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a pilot program to create a community pharmacy care delivery model for medication-assisted therapy for treatment of substance abuse.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 133)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB246/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB246.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1070736,"bill_number":"SR120","title":"Honor Hazel Calloway on the occasion of her 90th birthday.","description":"Honor Hazel Calloway on the occasion of her 90th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR120/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR120.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1070751,"bill_number":"HB241","title":"AN ACT relating to weights and measures.","description":"Amend KRS 363.904 to allow the Governor or the Governor's designee to issue a temporary waiver of ASTM specifications for motor fuel during an emergency that disrupts the motor fuel supply.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 25)","last_action_date":"2018-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB241/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB241.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1070770,"bill_number":"HB243","title":"AN ACT relating to the consolidation of counties.","description":"Create noncodified sections to consolidate various counties in the Commonwealth; stipulate how the county is to be divided into districts, select new county names and county seats, form taxing districts, integrate into representative, senatorial, congressional districts, or judicial circuits, require that records are transferred, treat appointed officials on boards, and the transition of the board functions, account for special districts, transfer contracts, bonds, franchises and other legal instruments to new county, transfer employees employed as of December 31, 2022, to new county, maintain local option status until changed by law, require Circuit Court clerks serve remainder of term concurrently and have duties for that period prescribed by Administrative Office of the Courts, and transition county board of election membership to coordinate with the consolidation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB243/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB243.htm","sponsor":"Gary Herald"},
{"bill_id":1070785,"bill_number":"HR103","title":"Recognize the month of June as National Dairy Month.","description":"Recognize the month of June as National Dairy Month.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"3rd reading, passed 82-0 with committee amendment","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR103/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR103.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1070801,"bill_number":"HB247","title":"AN ACT relating to student scholarships and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 164.7871 to 164.7885 to allow the use of KEES funds for dual credit courses; require KHEAA to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section; amend KRS 164.7874 to require KEES recipients to complete the FAFSA; amend KRS 164.7879 to revise the criteria for and amount of KEES base awards; provide for an annual increase in KEES base awards based on the Consumer Price Index; amend KRS 164.7884 to allow KEES funds to be used for qualified workforce training programs; amend KRS 164.7885 to limit a student's KEES disbursement based on federal and state financial aid received and allow rollover of remaining KEES funds; amend KRS 164.786 to sunset the dual credit scholarship program on June 30, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB247/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB247.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1070814,"bill_number":"SR122","title":"Honor Spradling Memorial A.M.E. African American Episcopal Zion Church on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.","description":"Honor Spradling Memorial A.M.E. African American Episcopal Zion Church on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR122/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR122.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1070829,"bill_number":"HB245","title":"AN ACT relating to successor corporation asbestos-related liabilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; apply limitations to successor corporations' liability, except in certain enumerated situations; stipulate when the fair market value of a successor corporation's total gross assets are determined; stipulate how a successor corporation may establish fair market value; stipulate how the prime rate is to be calculated.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB245/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB245.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1070841,"bill_number":"SJR121","title":"Designate the Harry Lee Moore Memorial Highway in Floyd County.","description":"Designate the Harry Lee Moore Memorial Highway in Floyd County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR121/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR121.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1070855,"bill_number":"HB242","title":"AN ACT relating to school districts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to merge all current county and independent school districts into 55 districts; abolish existing local boards of education and establish 55 boards of education; amend KRS 160.210 to establish election procedures for new boards of education; amend KRS 160.500, 45A.345, 56.467, 65.230, 65.350, 65.355, 65.360, 65.940, 134.010, 134.119, 156.250, 156.435, 156.440, 156.445, 156.472, 156.480, 157.320, 157.370, 157.615, 158.135, 158.200, 160.045, 160.1590, 160.260, 160.455, 160.460, 161.810, 162.020, 162.520, 160.160, 160.240, and 136.602 to conform; repeal KRS 160.010, 160.020, 160.040, 160.041, 160.042, and 160.200; Sections 2 to 32 effective June 30, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-24","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB242/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB242.htm","sponsor":"Gary Herald"},
{"bill_id":1070868,"bill_number":"SB108","title":"AN ACT relating to child support enforcement of health care coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 403.211 to update the definition of health care coverage as it relates to child support enforcement procedures to comply with changes in federal law.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 68)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB108/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB108.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1070878,"bill_number":"HB244","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 42.650 to establish the Division of Enterprise Portfolios within the newly established Office of IT Architecture and Governance; amend KRS 42.724 to establish the Offices of Project Management, IT Services and Delivery, IT Architecture and Governance, the Chief Information Security Officer, KY Business One Stop; abolish the Offices of Enterprise Technology, Infrastructure Services, Application Development, Chief Information Officer, and Information Technology Service Management; amend KRS 42.726 to declare the Commonwealth Office of Technology the lead organizational entity within the executive branch regarding information technology services and the single information technology authority for the Commonwealth; amend KRS 42.730 to require the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of Technology to serve as the chief information officer for all agencies within the executive branch; include in the duties of the executive director, the approval of technology acquisitions prior to any procurement; amend KRS 42.738 to change the titles of chief of information officers of various agencies to information technology leads; amend KRS 42.742, 42.744, and 116.200 to conform; amend KRS 131.020 to establish a Division of Application Development and Support within the Office of Processing and Enforcement in the Department of Revenue; confirm Executive Order 2017-0889.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 78)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB244/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB244.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1072053,"bill_number":"HB250","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 to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the eligibility age for members of the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB250/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB250.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1072059,"bill_number":"HB254","title":"AN ACT relating to boat docks and marinas.","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 the 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 or other emergency; require marina and boat dock compliance by August 1, 2019; 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 235.990 to establish penalties for violations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB254/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB254.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1072066,"bill_number":"HB251","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 14.025 to 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; amend KRS 355.9-513A to conform; confirm Secretary of State Executive Order 2017-01.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB251/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB251.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1072074,"bill_number":"SB110","title":"AN ACT relating to quota licenses for alcohol and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet counties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet cities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to specify the department's process for verifying quota numbers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to allow a city or county to petition for a quota increase and establish criteria for the board to consider; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to outline petition requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to notify quota license holders that quotas may be increased; amend KRS 241.065 to conform with population data; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 154)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB110/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB110.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1072081,"bill_number":"SR126","title":"Honor Dr. H. Randy Steele.","description":"Honor Dr. H. Randy Steele.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR126/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR126.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1072089,"bill_number":"HB252","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.243 to require adjusting of rates and give the secretary of Education and Workforce Development Cabinet the authority to reduce rates or suspend payments to the service capacity upgrade fund; amend KRS 341.300 to specify when interest on unpaid contributions accrues and becomes due; amend KRS 341.350 to increase the highest wages in a base period and adjust the minimum base-period wages; amend KRS 341.360 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 341.380 to set the maximum weekly amounts and the length of time benefits will be paid; amend KRS 341.540 to define and redefine terms; provide when an acquiring employing unit is deemed a successor.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 134)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB252/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB252.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1072099,"bill_number":"HR107","title":"Honor the 2017 Danville High School 2A State Championship football team.","description":"Honor the 2017 Danville High School 2A State Championship football team.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR107/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR107.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1072106,"bill_number":"HB256","title":"AN ACT relating to computation of time in state administrative bodies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require state agencies to compute time in a standardized way, similar to rule of civil procedure.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB256/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB256.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1072115,"bill_number":"HB257","title":"AN ACT relating to state employment offices.","description":"Amend KRS 151B.285 to mandate that public employment offices be located in specified locations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB257/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB257.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1072122,"bill_number":"HB248","title":"AN ACT relating to fantasy contests and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections thereof to establish definitions; require fantasy contest operators to be registered with the cabinet before operating fantasy contests; establish registration requirements; create the fantasy contest administration fund; prescribe the conditions upon which the cabinet may grant registration to a fantasy contest operator; require registrants to implement reasonable procedures for the conduct of fantasy contests that require an entry fee; require registrants to annually submit their records to a cabinet-approved certified public accountant to perform an audit; direct registrants to keep daily records of its operations; direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations that govern the operation of fantasy contests, with exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB248/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB248.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1072133,"bill_number":"SB109","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 510.010 to include penetration by body parts in definitions of \"sexual intercourse\" and \" deviate sexual intercourse\" for purposes of describing the crimes of rape and sodomy.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 34)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB109/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB109.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1072140,"bill_number":"HR106","title":"Honor the 2017 Boyle County High School 3A State Championship football team.","description":"Honor the 2017 Boyle County High School 3A State Championship football team.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR106/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR106.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1072148,"bill_number":"HB258","title":"AN ACT relating to conversion therapy and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 319, and 335 to prohibit practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy, including the compensation and advertisement for conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline and false claims laws; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; define \"conversion therapy\" and \"public funds\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB258/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB258.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1072157,"bill_number":"SR127","title":"Honor former Kentucky State Senator Clyde Middleton on the occasion of his 90th birthday.","description":"Honor former Kentucky State Senator Clyde Middleton on the occasion of his 90th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR127/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR127.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1072163,"bill_number":"SR125","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Glendel Ray Coleman.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Glendel Ray Coleman.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR125/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR125.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1072172,"bill_number":"SB111","title":"AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering.","description":"Amend KRS 138.510 to make permanent the Breeder's Cup exemption which sunsetted December 31, 2017.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB111/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB111.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1072179,"bill_number":"HB249","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for hormonal contraceptives.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans that offer hormonal contraceptive coverage to cover the dispensing of a twelve-month supply at a single time.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB249/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB249.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1072187,"bill_number":"SR128","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bobby Brockman.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bobby Brockman.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR128/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR128.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1072193,"bill_number":"HB255","title":"AN ACT relating to elk hunting permits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to establish a disabled hunter postseason elk quota hunt; define \"elk zone\" and make eligible only those who are able to qualify for a disabled hunter license; set the number of permits for the hunt at not more than 10% of the total number of permits allotted for the regular quota hunt; require hunters drawn for the disabled hunter post season elk quota hunt to comply with all hunting laws, both state and federal; require the department to attempt to ensure disability access to areas in the elk zone; allow hunters drawn for the disabled hunter postseason elk quota hunt who own land in the elk zone to elect to hunt on their own land rather than assigned areas in the elk zone.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB255/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB255.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1072200,"bill_number":"HB253","title":"AN ACT relating to a teacher scholarship pilot program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 164.769 to establish a STEM teacher scholarship pilot program; establish eligibility and repayment criteria; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-25","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-01-29","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB253/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB253.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1072208,"bill_number":"SR129","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ruby Eleanor Greene Orr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ruby Eleanor Greene Orr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR129/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR129.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1072811,"bill_number":"SB113","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for local elected officials and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.637 to allow a mayor or member of a city legislative body who does not have service credit in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) for his or her service to the city to retire and draw benefits from CERS for other covered employment without resigning from his or her position as mayor or member of a city legislative body; amend KRS 78.540 to provide that a mayor or member of a city legislative body who has been required to participate in CERS due to other covered employment, or because of failure to make an election to not participate as provided by this section, may elect to not participate in CERS for service as mayor or member of the city legislative body and to receive a refund of contributions for his or her service as a mayor or member of a city legislative body; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"floor amendments (8), and (11) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (9) filed to HFA (1), floor amendments (10-title), (12), (13-title) filed","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB113/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB113.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1072824,"bill_number":"HR108","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Paul David \"Jim\" Bunning Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR108/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR108.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1072840,"bill_number":"SR130","title":"Honor Father Martin A. Linebach upon his appointment to the position of vicar general of the Archdiocese of Louisville.","description":"Honor Father Martin A. Linebach upon his appointment to the position of vicar general of the Archdiocese of Louisville.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR130/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR130.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1072854,"bill_number":"HR110","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Emmett \"Charlie\" Horlander.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Emmett \"Charlie\" Horlander.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR110/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR110.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1072869,"bill_number":"SB112","title":"AN ACT relating to telehealth.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the cabinet to regulate telehealth; set requirements for the delivery of telehealth services to Medicaid recipients; require equivalent reimbursement for telehealth services; require provision of coverage and reimbursement for telehealth; prohibit the cabinet from requiring providers to be physically present with a recipient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of a telehealth network; specify that Medicaid shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 205.510 to define terms; amend KRS 205.559 to add telehealth; amend 304.17A-005 to redefine \"telehealth\"; amend KRS 304.17A-138 to require health benefit plan coverage of telehealth to the same extent as though provided in person; prohibit health benefit plans from requiring providers to be physically present with a patient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of the telehealth network or subject to Telehealth Board oversight; specify that health benefit plans shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 342.315 to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any fully insured health benefit plans or self-insured plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2019, to public employees to comply with KRS 304.17A-138; repeal KRS 194A.125; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 187)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB112/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB112.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1072885,"bill_number":"HB259","title":"AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel tax.","description":"Amend KRS 138.510 to make permanent the Breeder's Cup exemption which sunsetted December 31, 2017.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 12)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB259/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB259.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1072899,"bill_number":"HJR111","title":"Name and designate Red Hill Cutlery in Radcliff, Kentucky as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","description":"Name and designate Red Hill Cutlery in Radcliff, Kentucky as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR111/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR111.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1072910,"bill_number":"HR109","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph L. \"Jody\" Jenkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph L. \"Jody\" Jenkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR109/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR109.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1072925,"bill_number":"HB260","title":"AN ACT relating to licensed occupations, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 317.410 to add a definition for \"endorsement\" and make technical changes; amend KRS 317.420 to make technical changes and to specify that licensing under this chapter is required for barber shop advertising and to allow barbers to provide services to hospice patients or deceased persons at funeral establishments; amend KRS 317.450 to change probationary barber to apprentice barber, add requirements to apprentice skills, remove fees from statute and set through administrative regulations, allow manager or location changes, increase teacher experience to 36 months, and create a student permit and a demonstration charity event permit; amend KRS 317.460 to allow board inspection authority; amend KRS 317.470 to allow electronic publication of administrative regulations; amend KRS 317.530 to specify terms of the board's trust and agency fund; amend KRS 317.590 to clarify board functions; amend KRS 317A.010 to add definition for \"esthetician,\" \"esthetic practices school,\" \"esthetic salon,\" \"eyelash artistry,\" \"makeup artistry,\" and \"nail technology school\" and make technical corrections; amend KRS 317A.020 to add esthetic practices, make technical changes, and allow the board to bring actions in its name; amend KRS 317A.030 to change the board name and include esthetic practices and nail technology; amend KRS 317A.040 to allow the board to delegate staffing decisions and make technical changes; amend KRS 317A.050 to condense similar licensing requirements, make technical changes, reduce required hours of training for estheticians and nail technicians, add estheticians provisions from KRS Chapter 317B, allow the board to automatically renew licenses, set license periods in administrative regulations, and establish permit requirements for eyelash artistry and makeup artistry; amend KRS 317A.062 to require fees to be set in administrative regulations; amend KRS 317A.070 to include permits; amend KRS 317A.080 to specify terms of the board's trust and agency fund; amend KRS 317A.090 to make technical changes and to reduce required training hours for estheticians and nail technicians; amend KRS 317A.120 to allow national examinations to be used, to require exam proctors, and to allow testing to be conducted at regional locations; amend KRS 317A.130 to make technical changes and include esthetician provisions from KRS Chapter 317B; amend KRS 317A.140 to specify board functions; amend KRS 317A.145 to allow board inspection authority; amend KRS 317A.990 to increase potential penalty amounts; amend KRS 164.945, 165A.310, 309.352, and 324B.030 to conform; amend KRS 317.430, 317.440, 317.540, 317.580, 317A.060, 317A.100, 317A.150, and 317A.155 to make technical changes; repeal KRS 317A.160, 317B.010, 317B.015, 317B.020, 317B.025, 317B.030, 317B.035, 317B.040, 317B.045, 317B.050, 317B.055, and 317B.060; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 46)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB260/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB260.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1073809,"bill_number":"HCR113","title":"Urge Kentucky's community and technical colleges, state universities, private colleges, accredited educational facilities, and trade schools to work in cooperation and partnership with private industry, trade groups, and organizations to examine the feasibility of developing a certification and training program, including on-the-job internship opportunities for heavy equipment operators and commercial drivers' licenses to support Kentucky's industries.","description":"Urge Kentucky's community and technical colleges, state universities, private colleges, accredited educational facilities, and trade schools to work in cooperation and partnership with private industry, trade groups, and organizations to examine the feasibility of developing a certification and training program, including on-the-job internship opportunities for heavy equipment operators and commercial drivers' licenses to support Kentucky's industries.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR113/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR113.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1073818,"bill_number":"SB115","title":"Jan 31-WITHDRAWN","description":"Jan 31-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-29","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB115/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB115.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1073826,"bill_number":"SR131","title":"Honor the 150th anniversary of St. Catherine Academy in New Haven, Kentucky.","description":"Honor the 150th anniversary of St. Catherine Academy in New Haven, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR131/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR131.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1073834,"bill_number":"HB266","title":"AN ACT relating to deeds to real property.","description":"Amend KRS 382.135 to describe the requisite \"full name\" for an grantor and grantee when recording a deed to real property and direct that the record is still notice and admissible as evidence if the instrument is not in compliance with the provisions as set out in this section.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB266/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB266.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1073842,"bill_number":"SB114","title":"AN ACT relating to coroners.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to prohibit a coroner from also being a funeral director and making it malfeasance to do so; create a new section of KRS Chapter 316 to require a licensee to report to the board when becoming a coroner, and to require the license to be placed in inactive status, and make it an ethical violation if not done; amend KRS 316.030 to create an inactive license; amend KRS 316.130 to conform; and amend 316.150 to establish a violation as grounds for disciplinary action.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-29","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB114/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB114.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1073850,"bill_number":"SR132","title":"Proclaiming January 31, 2018, to be Disability Awareness Day in Kentucky.","description":"Proclaiming January 31, 2018, to be Disability Awareness Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR132/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR132.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1073860,"bill_number":"HB263","title":"AN ACT relating to home-based food products.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015 to redefine \"retail food store,\" \"home-based processor,\" \"home-based microprocessor,\" and \"farmer\"; amend KRS 217.136 to change acceptable food products that may be offered by a home-based processor for sale in this state; amend KRS 217.137 to change acceptable food products that may be offered by a home-based microprocessor for sale in this state.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 77)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB263/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB263.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1073868,"bill_number":"HB261","title":"AN ACT relating to mining.","description":"Amend KRS 13B.020 to exempt explosives and blasting hearings conducted under KRS 351.315 to 351.375 from the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 350.0301 to remove the requirement that proposed civil penalty amounts for suspected violations of surface coal mining and reclamation requirements be placed into an escrow account prior to a formal hearing; amend KRS 350.064 to remove the discretion of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to allow surface coal mining and reclamation permit applicants to submit their own reclamation bonds without separate sureties; amend KRS 350.070 to remove the ability to apply for a major revision to a permit in the event that an underground mining extension area is not on an incidental boundary and does not include planned subsidence; remove the maximum acreage allowance allowed to be added by an incidental boundary revision for underground mining operations; create a new section of KRS 350.240 to 350.280 to establish the requirements for a permit exemption for personal, noncommercial mining of vein minerals; amend KRS 350.300 to conform; amend KRS 350.518 to conform; amend KRS 350.990 to direct that civil penalties collected for violations of KRS Chapter 350 over $800,000 for a fiscal year be transferred to the Department for Natural Resources' Commissioner's Office restricted fund account to be used for the purposes set out in KRS Chapters 350, 351, and 352; amend KRS 351.090 to remove the reference to mine safety specialist qualifications required by KRS 351.060; amend KRS 351.182 to conform; amend KRS 351.315 to require that blasting license revocation hearings be held before the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings instead of being held under the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 351.345 also to require that blasting license revocation hearings be held before the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings instead of being held under the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 351.350 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of General Counsel, instead of the Attorney General, to bring actions for recovery of penalties and restraining orders for violations of KRS 351.315 to 351.375; amend KRS 352.170 to add lighters and vaping apparatuses to the list of prohibited items in an underground mine; amend KRS 352.180 to change the reporting requirements to the Department for Natural Resources for mining accidents; repeal KRS 351.380.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 85)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB261/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB261.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1073876,"bill_number":"HB262","title":"AN ACT relating to retired justices and judges.","description":"Amend KRS 423.010 to provide that retired justices and judges shall have the powers of notaries public.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-29","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB262/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB262.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1073884,"bill_number":"HR114","title":"Celebrate the 209th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.","description":"Celebrate the 209th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR114/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR114.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1073893,"bill_number":"HB264","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganizations.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020, 12.252, 224.10-020, 336.015, and 336.020 to abolish the Office of General Administration and Program Support for Shared Services and all of its divisions and abolish the Office of Inspector General for Shared Services for the Energy and Environmental Cabinet, Labor Cabinet, and Public Protection Cabinet and create new offices and divisions within each cabinet to handle the services previously handled by GAPS; confirm Executive Orders 2017-745, 2017-746, 2017-747, 2017-748, and 2017-855.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-28","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 31)","last_action_date":"2018-03-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB264/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB264.htm","sponsor":"Matt Castlen"},
{"bill_id":1073902,"bill_number":"HB265","title":"AN ACT relating to training for telecommunicators.","description":"Amend KRS 15.550 to require telecommunicators that provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions to be trained in high-quality telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR).","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-27","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 203)","last_action_date":"2018-04-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB265/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB265.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1073909,"bill_number":"HR112","title":"Declare January 30, 2018, Live United Day in Kentucky.","description":"Declare January 30, 2018, Live United Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR112/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR112.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1074796,"bill_number":"SB116","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a commercial motor vehicle.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to set forth requirements for commercial motor vehicles to operate as a platoon; amend KRS 281.010 to define the term \"platoon\"; amend KRS 189.340 to exempt commercial motor vehicles operating behind the lead vehicle in a platoon from the prohibitions against following too closely.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 33)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB116/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB116.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1074802,"bill_number":"SB117","title":"AN ACT relating to underground facility protection.","description":"Amend KRS 367.4909 to waive the rights of nonmember operators of the Kentucky Contact Center for damage to their underground facilities; amend KRS 367.4913 to eliminate the requirement that the operators file their contact information with the county clerk where the operator has underground facilities and to require the Kentucky Contact Center to maintain a list of members' contact information.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB117/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB117.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1074810,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 194A.030 to remove the Office of the Ombudsman from within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' Secretary’s Office and establish it as an independent office; amend KRS 199.461 to require additional reporting of statewide, regional, and county caseload average for state social service workers; amend KRS 199.470 to change the definition of relative caregiver for adoption purposes and align placement options with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; amend KRS 199.641 to allow the cabinet to contract with child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies; amend KRS 199.800 to update definitions; amend KRS 199.801 to update and establish new processes for state-level and regional placement coordinators for children in the custody of the cabinet; create a new section of KRS 199.470 to 199.590 to require the cabinet to establish uniform home study processes; repeal and reenact KRS 200.575 to update and establish new processes for delivery of family preservation services; amend KRS 213.056 to change language required to be on a Kentucky birth certificate of a person adopted from outside the United States; amend KRS 213.141 to establish no birth certificate fees for a child who is in the custody of the cabinet; amend KRS 600.020 to expand the definition of “abused or neglected child”; amend KRS 605.120 to allow for a broader array of services, including monetary, for relative caregivers; amend KRS 610.040 to attempt to resolve conflicts regarding the service of process for courts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to resolve delays due to simultaneous criminal proceedings during dependency, neglect, or abuse cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to allow the cabinet to charge a fee for background checks of child abuse and neglect records in certain circumstances; amend KRS 620.050 to establish new language related to Children’s Advocacy Centers in administrative hearings and access to the records and interviews; amend KRS 620.060 to clarify locations of dependency, neglect, or abuse cases for courts; amend KRS 620.070 to attempt to resolve conflicts regarding the service of process for courts; amend KRS 620.180 to lengthen the time before the first out-of-home case plan is due and require that by January 1, 2019, that CHFS shall establish and implement the processes, procedures, timelines, and requirements to ensure that children committed to the cabinet as dependent, neglected, or abused and placed in foster family homes are timely reunified with their biological family or identified for and placed in a new permanent home; amend KRS 620.270 to establish changes to the existing Citizen Foster Care Review Boards in the state to establish an interested party review to occur to allow a forum for citizens throughout the state to express their thoughts and opinions related to child welfare; amend KRS 620.090 related to notifications from the Citizen Foster Care Review Boards; amend KRS 620.310 to establish changes to the Citizen Foster Care Review Board related to the election of the chairpersons; amend KRS 625.090 related to the filing of a motion of termination of parental rights; amend KRS 625.110 related to the appeals of the termination of parental rights; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish a putative father registry in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; prescribe the data the registry will contain and who may access the data; amend KRS 199.480 and 199.990 to conform; amend KRS 406.081 to require courts to resolve cases against alleged fathers who do not comply with ordered genetic testing; amend KRS 406.091 to require the party requesting that the paternity action be filed to pay for genetic testing; amend KRS 625.065 to the putative father registry; amend KRS 199.502 related to the putative father registry; create a new section of KRS 199.640 to199.670 to require performance-based contracting and require the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to designate a study group to make recommendations regarding the creation and implementation of performance-based contracting for licensed child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies in the Commonwealth and to require a report; create a new section of KRS 620 to establish a notification be made to foster parents; require the secretary of the cabinet for Health and Family services to designate a study group to make recommendations regarding the feasibility and implementation of the privatization of all foster care services in the Commonwealth and require a report; amend KRS 199.473, 199.490, 625.040, 625.042, and 625.043 to conform; repeal KRS 199.565, 199.805, 200.580, 200.585, 200.590, 200.595, 200.600, and 200.605.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 159)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB1.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1074821,"bill_number":"HB268","title":"AN ACT relating to leave from employment for crime victims.","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 a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a penalty for failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB268/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB268.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1074827,"bill_number":"HB276","title":"AN ACT relating to animal torture and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 525.135 to redefine \" torture\" to include deliberate neglect or physical abuse that results in the death of or serious physical injury to a dog or cat; provide for forfeiture of ownership of the dog or cat upon conviction or plea; prohibit future ownership of a dog or cat for one year for a first offense and five years for a second or subsequent offense; require forfeited dogs and cats to be offered to animal rescue organizations or given to county animal shelters; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 establishing the torture recovery fund; require amounts in the fund to be distributed to county animal shelters; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB276/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB276.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1074837,"bill_number":"SR135","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Carl Cooper Dempewolf.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Carl Cooper Dempewolf.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR135/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR135.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1074847,"bill_number":"HB273","title":"AN ACT relating to voter registration.","description":"Amend KRS 116.055 to ensure that any qualified voter who voluntarily removes his or her name from the voter registration list after December 31 and who subsequently wishes to register to vote prior to the next scheduled primary, shall not be considered as a \"newly registered voter\" for purposes of party eligibility.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB273/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB273.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1074855,"bill_number":"SB118","title":"AN ACT relating to medical cannabis.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; specify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; specify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; establish the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration to enforce the program's provisions; establish requirement that local law enforcement be hired or contracted with for local inspections, investigations, and administrative duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, and health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require the department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish a provisional licensure process; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate administrative regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action in the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish a medical cannabis trust fund to receive fees, fines, and registration costs and administer and operate the medical cannabis program; require 5% of trust fund moneys to be returned to the compassion centers for the use of certain indigent persons; amend KRS 218A.1421 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1422 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1423 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 12.020 and 12.242 to reflect the creation of the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB118/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB118.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1074863,"bill_number":"HB267","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 243.075 to allow all wet cities and counties containing wet cities through a local option election to impose a regulatory license fee on the sale of alcoholic beverages.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB267/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB267.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1074875,"bill_number":"HB274","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.085 to require that all requests for an application for a mail-in absentee ballot be received by the county clerk by the close of business hours fourteen days before the election; permit a county clerk to transmit an application for a mail-in absentee ballot to the voter by electronic mail; require cancellation of a mail-in absentee ballot no later than fourteen days before the election; amend KRS 117.075 to make technical corrections and to conform; amend KRS 117A.060 and 117A.070 to conform.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB274/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB274.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1074882,"bill_number":"SR134","title":"Declare January 30, 2018, Live United Day in Kentucky.","description":"Declare January 30, 2018, Live United Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR134/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR134.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1074891,"bill_number":"HB269","title":"AN ACT relating to divorce.","description":"Amend KRS 403.044 to state that no testimony can be taken in divorce actions involving minor children of the marriage until one year has elapsed; amend KRS 403.140 to add a divorce and co-parenting education requirement before a divorce can occur when the marriage at issue involves minor children.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB269/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB269.htm","sponsor":"Larry Brown"},
{"bill_id":1074900,"bill_number":"HB278","title":"AN ACT relating to automated external defibrillators in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 158.162 to require, as funds are available, the school council or, if none exists, the principal to obtain a portable automated external defibrillator; require a minimum of three employees be trained on its usage; require the school council or, if none exists, the principal to adopt procedures for its usage and availability and policies on training and maintenance; amend KRS 158.302 to delete language stating that a school is not required to have an automated external defibrillator; this act shall be known as Cameron's Law.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-05","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB278/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB278.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1074912,"bill_number":"HCR115","title":"Urge Congress to establish a moratorium on closing coal-fired electric plants and to eliminate subsidies for renewable energy sources.","description":"Urge Congress to establish a moratorium on closing coal-fired electric plants and to eliminate subsidies for renewable energy sources.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR115/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR115.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1074922,"bill_number":"HR116","title":"Celebrate the bicentennial of Hodgenville.","description":"Celebrate the bicentennial of Hodgenville.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR116/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR116.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1074930,"bill_number":"HB275","title":"AN ACT relating to special deputies.","description":"Amend KRS 70.045 to permit sheriffs in all counties to appoint one special deputy for every 1,000 persons living in the county.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 83)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB275/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB275.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1074938,"bill_number":"HB272","title":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB272/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB272.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1074952,"bill_number":"HB277","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles and operators.","description":"Amend KRS 138.715 to establish a fee of $500 for any licensee who fails to make any report required in KRS 138.660 to 138.7291; amend KRS 186.018 to change the Kentucky Driver's License Information System look back time from 5 years to 10 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to prohibit the masking of violations for a CDL holder from appearing on their CDLIS driver record; provide exemptions; amend KRS 281A.165 to change the time period of which the cabinet may waive a driving skills test for former military personnel, from 90 days of separation of service to one year; conform to federal regulation; amend KRS 281A.170 remove the requirement that a licensee's photograph be color; REPEAL KRS 138.670.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 135)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB277/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB277.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1074960,"bill_number":"HR118","title":"Proclaim January 31, 2018, to be Disability Awareness Day in Kentucky.","description":"Proclaim January 31, 2018, to be Disability Awareness Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-01-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR118/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR118.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1074968,"bill_number":"HB270","title":"AN ACT relating to county boards of elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.035 to establish that a county board of elections shall meet every other month during election years; authorize meetings of the county board of elections at the call of the chair or upon member agreement at other times; direct notice provisions; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 160)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB270/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB270.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1074980,"bill_number":"HB12","title":"AN ACT relating to telehealth.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the cabinet to regulate telehealth; set requirements for the delivery of telehealth services to Medicaid recipients; require equivalent reimbursement for telehealth services; require provision of coverage and reimbursement for telehealth; prohibit the cabinet from requiring providers to be physically present with a recipient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of a telehealth network; specify that Medicaid shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 205.510 to define terms; amend KRS 205.559 to add telehealth; amend 304.17A-005 to redefine \"telehealth\"; amend KRS 304.17A-138 to require health benefit plan coverage of telehealth to the same extent as though provided in person; prohibit health benefit plans from requiring providers to be physically present with a patient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of the telehealth network or subject to Telehealth Board oversight; specify that health benefit plans shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 342.315 to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any fully insured health benefit plans or self-insured plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2019, to public employees to comply with KRS 304.17A-138; repeal KRS 194A.125; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2019.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB12/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB12.htm","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1074989,"bill_number":"SR133","title":"Honor Staff Sergeant Nicholas Davis as a recipient of the Soldier's Medal.","description":"Honor Staff Sergeant Nicholas Davis as a recipient of the Soldier's Medal.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR133/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR133.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1074995,"bill_number":"HB271","title":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-30","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB271/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB271.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1075006,"bill_number":"HR117","title":"Honor Staff Sergeant Nicholas Davis as a recipient of the Soldier's Medal.","description":"Honor Staff Sergeant Nicholas Davis as a recipient of the Soldier's Medal.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR117/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR117.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1075014,"bill_number":"SR136","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph L. \"Jody\" Jenkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph L. \"Jody\" Jenkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR136/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR136.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1076265,"bill_number":"HB289","title":"AN ACT relating to disproportionate share hospital payments and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 205.639 to establish definitions; amend KRS 205.640 to specify the process for submitting Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) surveys; specify the process by which initial and final DSH payments are calculated; provide for the distribution of DSH funds; require the Department for Medicaid Services and managed care organizations to provide hospitals with a paid claims list within 90 days of the end of each hospital's fiscal year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a penalty for managed care organizations that do not provide hospitals with a paid claims list by the required deadline; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to permit the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations to comply with changes in federal law regarding DSH payments and to make DSH payments contingent upon receipt of federal funds, the availability of state funds, and approval of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; repeal KRS 205.641; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 76)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB289/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB289.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1076276,"bill_number":"HB283","title":"AN ACT relating to home modification tax credits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified home modification expenses incurred by an individual equal to the actual cost of the home modifications, up to $7,500 per taxpayer per year; limit total credits to $500,000 per year; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit, amend various sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB283/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB283.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1076286,"bill_number":"HB284","title":"AN ACT relating to high-cost home loans.","description":"Amend KRS 360.100 to update references to federal law and to provide exemptions for initial construction loans and short-term \"bridge\" loans to match federal regulation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB284/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB284.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1076296,"bill_number":"HB288","title":"AN ACT relating to property and trusts.","description":"Create a new section of Chapter 386 and provide definitions related to the creation of a community property trust; provide the requirements for the creation of a community property trust by spouses; provide what spouses may agree on and provide in writing related to community property trusts; enumerate what happens to a community property trust upon the death of a spouse; amend KRS 141.010 to provide federal tax guidelines related to community property trusts; amend KRS 386.175 to provide that a second trust may be created from an original trust whose terms have been modified pursuant to KRS 386.175; create a new section of KRS Chapter 396 to provide that certain creditor's claims are barred six months after the appointment of a personal representative after the decedent's death; amend KRS 396.011 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB288/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB288.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1076308,"bill_number":"HR121","title":"Honor and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fort Knox.","description":"Honor and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fort Knox.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR121/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR121.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1076319,"bill_number":"HB282","title":"AN ACT relating to an Article V Convention of the States.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to apply upon the passage of an Article V Application by the General Assembly on the same subject or containing the same proposed amendment text as two-thirds (2/3) of the other states and the United States Congress calling an Article V Convention; establishment of a delegation, its parameters, oath, certification, and revocation of certification and authority; establish preferred procedures and planning to be performed by the Article V Convention; establish an oversight convention committee charged with overseeing the delegates and their actions, recalling a delegate acting outside proper authority, and provide notifications to relevant elected officials; establish authority with the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Legislative Research Commission of Kentucky to enforce the Article V application, delegate actions, and delegate voting.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB282/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB282.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1076328,"bill_number":"HJR120","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Harlan County in memory of William Stevens and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Harlan County in memory of William Stevens and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR120/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR120.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1076339,"bill_number":"HB286","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Community and Technical College endowment match fund; transfer $3 million annually to the fund from general fund; authorize promulgation of administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB286/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB286.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1076350,"bill_number":"SB120","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle by a minor.","description":"Amend KRS 186.560 to require the Transportation Cabinet to suspend, for 30 days, an instruction permit, intermediate license, or operator's license of a person who is under the age of 18 if that person has attained more than 3 points against his or her driving record; amend KRS 186.450 and KRS 186.4122 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB120/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB120.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1076360,"bill_number":"SB119","title":"AN ACT relating to cervid meat processors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define \"cervid meat processor\"; require cervid meat processors to dispose of waste or unused material produced from processing cervid meat in the same manners as required for livestock, poultry, and fish carcasses under KRS 257.160; amend KRS 150.990 to establish penalties; amend KRS 257.160 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 28)","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB119/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB119.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1076373,"bill_number":"HB280","title":"AN ACT relating to drug treatment and prevention and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund; establish administering committee membership; direct all revenues from the Commonwealth related to the drug epidemic to the fund; describe authorized fund expenditures; require fund reporting; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB280/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB280.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1076382,"bill_number":"HB290","title":"AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to require the state board or the agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to allow a member school's team to play against students or a team from non-member, at-home private schools and establish the conditions under which this may occur.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 75)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB290/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB290.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1076394,"bill_number":"SR138","title":"Designate the first week of December 2018 as Cancer Screen Week.","description":"Designate the first week of December 2018 as Cancer Screen Week.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"3rd reading, passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR138/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR138.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1076404,"bill_number":"HB281","title":"AN ACT relating to proprietary education.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 165A.310, relating to proprietary education, to delete outdated definitions and add definition of \"license\"; amend KRS 165A.330 to require renewal applications to be filed annually 45 days prior to the expiration date; amend KRS 165A.340 to require a biennial audit of the commission; expand the advertising requirements to be administered by the commission; delete the requirement for the commission to monitor programs and courses offered by licensed institutions; amend KRS 165A.370 to revise the minimum standards for licensure of proprietary schools; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 165A to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 99)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB281/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB281.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1076417,"bill_number":"HJR119","title":"Submit an application to Congress to call a convention of the states of the United States of","description":"America, in accordance with Article V of the United States Constitution, to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a balanced budget.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR119/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR119.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1076427,"bill_number":"HR122","title":"Feb 21-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 21-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR122/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR122.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1076437,"bill_number":"SR139","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert Lee Patterson, Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert Lee Patterson, Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR139/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR139.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1076449,"bill_number":"HB3","title":"AN ACT relating to school curriculum.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 158)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB3/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB3.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":1076459,"bill_number":"HB285","title":"AN ACT relating to transient room taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.390, 91A.392, 153.440, and 153.450 to limit the imposition of local transient room taxes to rents for occupancy of 30 days or less; amend KRS 142.400 to limit the imposition of the statewide transient room tax to rents for occupancy of 30 days or less; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB285/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB285.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1076470,"bill_number":"HB279","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.","description":"Amend KRS 311A.010 to define \"advanced emergency medical technician\" and \"emergency medical responder, \" and update other definitions; amend KRS 311A.015 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; amend KRS 311A.020 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add certification of advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.025 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; amend KRS 311A.030 to update licensing categories; amend KRS 311A.050 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.055 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.060 change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.065 to update psychological or physical evaluation requirements; amend KRS 311A.075 to update board membership; amend KRS 311A.095 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; add electronic mail application requirements; delete outdated transition language; amend KRS 311A.105 to add electronic mailing requirements; amend KRS 311A.120 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians and paramedics; amend KRS 311A.125 to delete contiuing competency documentation requirement; amend KRS 311A.130 to change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.140 to clarify certification and licensure requirements; change \"first responder\" to \"emergency medical responder\"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.190 to change \"run form\" to \"patient care record\"; create new section of KRS Chapter 311A to set requirements for advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 95A.262,189.910, and 311.550 to conform; repeal KRS 311A.110, 311A.115, and 311A.127.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB279/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB279.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1076481,"bill_number":"SR137","title":"Honor Kentucky State University President Dr. M. Christopher Brown II.","description":"Honor Kentucky State University President Dr. M. Christopher Brown II.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR137/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR137.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1076491,"bill_number":"HB291","title":"AN ACT relating to the National Guard.","description":"Amend KRS 38.238, 38.460, and 61.394 to clarify that employment protections apply to any member of the National Guard.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch.82)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB291/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB291.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1076501,"bill_number":"HB287","title":"AN ACT relating to powers of appointment.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 390 and create new sections thereof to define various terms; specify the governing law over a power of appointment; state that common law supplements this chapter; outline the creation of a power of appointment; prohibit the transfer of a power of appointment; specify general presumptions upon a power of appointment's creation; make an exception to the general presumption about a power of appointment; define \"adverse party\"; allow a donor to revoke or amend a power of appointment in certain instances; state when a power of appointment may be exercised; provide that a residuary clause manifests a powerholder's intent to exercise a power of appointment; state that a blanket-exercise clause extends to a power acquired by the powerholder after executing the instrument containing the clause; require substantial compliance with a formal requirement of appointment; outline permissible appointments; provide that appointment to a deceased appointee is ineffective and appointment to an impermissible appointee is ineffective; require a powerholder's intent be carried out in cases of selective allocation; establish the procedure for disposition of property ineffectively appointed; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised general power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised nongeneral power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property if partial appointment is to the taker in default; provide for the disposition of property appointed to the taker in default; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend an exercise; allow a powerholder to disclaim a power of appointment or contract to appoint or not appoint any property subject to the power; allow a powerholder to release a power of appointment; state the method in which a powerholder may release a power of appointment; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend a release of power; allow a powerholder of a presently exercisable power of appointment and a not presently exercisable power of appointment to contract; establish a remedy for a powerholder's breach of a contract to appoint or not to appoint appointive property; outline the rights of a powerholder's creditors in appointive property; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is general; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is nongeneral; require uniformity of interpretation and application with regards to other states that have enacted this Act; specify how the enactment of this Act affects existing powers of appointment; provide that KRS Chapter 390 may be known as the Kentucky Uniform Powers of Appointment Act; amend KRS 381.225 to provide that a new perpetuities period may be started when a power of appointment is exercised, if the person exercising the power so provides; amend KRS 381.226 to exclude any interest in property created by the exercise of a special power of appointment granted by an instrument that was irrevocable on September 25, 1985, from being construed as requiring the interests to vest within the period specified in KRS 381.224, 381.225, and 381.226; repeal KRS 386.095, 394.060, and 394.070.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-01-31","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB287/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB287.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1078322,"bill_number":"HB298","title":"AN ACT relating to public finance.","description":"Amend KRS 42.500 to define \"boycott of Israel\" and \"company;\" require that the State Investment Commission not invest in companies participating in a boycott of Israel; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to define \"boycott of Israel\" and \"company\"; prohibit the Secretary of Finance and Administration from contracting with companies boycotting Israel but exempt contracts under $100,000 over the life of the contract; companies that have a contract with the state that boycott Israel shall be banned from state contracts for a two year period; amend KRS 61.510 to define \"boycott of Israel,\" \"company,\" \"direct holdings,\" and \"indirect holdings\"; amend KRS 61.650 to require the Kentucky Retirement Systems to prepare an annual report of public investments and to not invest in companies boycotting Israel.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB298/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB298.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1078345,"bill_number":"HB295","title":"AN ACT relating to pay lakes.","description":"Amend KRS 150.660 to set out Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources pay lake regulatory authority; require pay lakes to be licensed by the department; specify pay lake license revocation procedures; amend KRS 150.990 to delete pay lake fine reference.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB295/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB295.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1078370,"bill_number":"SR140","title":"Urge the United States Department of Transportation to expand the agricultural exemptions for electronic logging device usage to include all livestock haulers, including those involved in equine shows, races, rodeos, and other recreational events.","description":"Urge the United States Department of Transportation to expand the agricultural exemptions for electronic logging device usage to include all livestock haulers, including those involved in equine shows, races, rodeos, and other recreational events.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR140/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR140.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1078394,"bill_number":"SB124","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverage control investigators.","description":"Amend KRS 15.380 to allow local alcoholic beverage control investigators to be certified if certain conditions are met.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB124/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB124.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1078419,"bill_number":"HB297","title":"AN ACT relating to state employee pay equity.","description":"Amend KRS 7.100 to require the Legislative Research Commission to transmit pay equity information on its employees to the Secretary of Personnel by August 1 of each year; amend KRS 18A.030 to require the Secretary of Personnel to compile pay equity information on executive branch employees by August 1 of each year, to compile a report on gender pay equity for the legislative and executive branches of state government by December 1 of each year, and to transmit the report to the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB297/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB297.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1078443,"bill_number":"SR142","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. S. Sidney Ulmer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. S. Sidney Ulmer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR142/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR142.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1078468,"bill_number":"HJR124","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to place signs honoring the Lynn Camp High School Cheer Team, 2018 All \"A\" State Champions.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to place signs honoring the Lynn Camp High School Cheer Team, 2018 All \"A\" State Champions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR124/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR124.htm","sponsor":"Jim Stewart"},
{"bill_id":1078493,"bill_number":"SB122","title":"AN ACT relating to motorcycle safety education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 15A.350 to require that standards for motorcycle riding courses be prescribed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; amend 15A.352 to require the Motorcycle Safety Education Commission to publish a list of approved rider and instructor training courses; amend KRS 15A.354 to allow an instructor to be certified by the governing body of an approved program; remove restrictions preventing a person with a felony conviction from becoming an instructor; amend KRS 15A.356 to allow the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to utilize up to 10% of available program funds each fiscal year to defray its own expenses incurred in offering motorcycle rider courses; amend KRS 15A.358 to allow the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to utilize up to 10% of available program funds each fiscal year for administrative costs; amend KRS 15A.362 to require the Motorcycle Safety Education Commission to include a representative of the Transportation Cabinet, rather than a representative of the cabinet's Division of Driver Licensing; amend KRS 15A.366 to require that the annual report contain additional information regarding applicants and students; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 39)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB122/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB122.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1078517,"bill_number":"HB296","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.656 to delete reference to apprentice HVAC mechanic; amend KRS 198B.658 to delete the requirement for the department to issue an apprentice HVAC certificate; amend KRS 198B.674 to remove the reference to apprentice HVAC mechanics; amend KRS 198B.676 to eliminate examination fees for apprentice HVAC mechanics; amend KRS 198B.702 to delete reference to apprentice HVAC mechanics.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB296/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB296.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1078541,"bill_number":"HB292","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.28-050 to add gender-specific pronoun.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB292/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB292.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1078565,"bill_number":"HB293","title":"AN ACT relating to asbestos bankruptcy trust claims and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define \"asbestos action,\" \"asbestos trust,\" \"trust claims materials,\" and \"trust governance documents\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to require a plaintiff filing an asbestos action to provide certain information and documents within 30 days of filing the action, and to supplement the information within 30 days of filing any additional asbestos trust claims; allow a court to extend trial date if plaintiff fails to comply; establish presumption of relevance of trust materials and documents; prohibit plaintiff from claiming privilege or confidentiality to bar discovery; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow a defendant that has at least 60 days before trial, identified additional asbestos claims, to move the court for an order requiring that the plaintiff file those claims; require that the plaintiff file a response within 10 days of defendant's motion; allow the court to order the plaintiff to file additional claims; establish sufficiency standard for asbestos trust claim; establish a rebuttable presumption that the plaintiff will receive additional compensation from the asbestos trust; allow the court to take judicial notice of specific amounts and to establish an attributed value of the trust claim; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow a court to reopen a judgment if an additional claim is determined to have existed at the time of the filed asbestos action and the defendant motions the court to do so within one year of the original judgment; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB293/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB293.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1078591,"bill_number":"HR123","title":"Honor Pearse Lyons.","description":"Honor Pearse Lyons.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR123/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR123.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1078615,"bill_number":"SR141","title":"Recognize February as Black History Month.","description":"Recognize February as Black History Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR141/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR141.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1078639,"bill_number":"SB121","title":"AN ACT relating to the motor vehicle reparations act.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-020 to define \"health care provider\"; amend the definition of \"medical expense\"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.39-130 to increase loss per week dollar cap to $400; amend KRS 304.39-241 to clarify when a reparation obligor must honor a written direction of benefits provided by an insured; amend KRS 304.39-245 to prohibit providers from charging or balance billing for an amount in excess of that which would be allowed under the definition of \"medical expense\" for services covered under basic reparation benefits; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-03-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB121/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB121.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1078663,"bill_number":"SB123","title":"AN ACT relating to nursing facility beds approved by the state health plan.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit the state health plan from permitting more than a total of two applications establishing nursing facility beds in a freestanding facility or as part of an existing facility under a pilot program for post-acute transitional care; require these applications to be for facilities located in urban core-based statistical areas.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 113)","last_action_date":"2018-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB123/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB123.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1078688,"bill_number":"HB294","title":"AN ACT relating to human trafficking.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of human trafficking and promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 percent of the sentence has been served.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB294/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB294.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1080386,"bill_number":"SR144","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bernard Jerome Osborne.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bernard Jerome Osborne.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR144/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR144.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1080395,"bill_number":"HR128","title":"Recognize February as Black History Month.","description":"Recognize February as Black History Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR128/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR128.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1080407,"bill_number":"HR126","title":"Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community.","description":"Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR126/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR126.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":1080417,"bill_number":"HB301","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal history record checks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to allow the Department for Community Based Services to request a criminal justice agency to perform a federal name-based criminal history record check of each adult residing in a home that a child is placed during an emergency placement; allow the Department for Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to charge a reasonable fee for processing a fingerprint-based criminal history record check.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB301/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB301.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1080430,"bill_number":"HB302","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 and 12.252 to create the Professional Licensing Legal Division within the Public Protection Cabinet; create the Office of Administrative Hearings within the Public Protection Cabinet; confirm Executive Order 2017-325.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 176)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB302/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB302.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1080441,"bill_number":"HB303","title":"AN ACT relating to wages.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010, relating to the definition of \"employees\" of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to not less than $8.80 an hour on August 1, 2018, not less than $10.35 an hour beginning on August 1, 2019, not less than $11.90 an hour beginning on August 1, 2020, not less than $13.45 an hour beginning on August 1, 2021, and not less than $15.00 per hour beginning on August 1, 2022; 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 337.423 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 337.425 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 administrative regulations be promulgated on or before July 1, 2019; provide the amendments to KRS 337.423 are EFFECTIVE July 1, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB303/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB303.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1080453,"bill_number":"HB300","title":"AN ACT relating to executive branch ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 11A.010, relating to executive branch ethics, to expand and update the definitions of \"officer\" and \"public servant.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB300/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB300.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1080465,"bill_number":"HB304","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.035 to allow the sheriff the option of recommending a deputy sheriff as a temporary replacement, in his or her position on the county board of elections, during any year the sheriff is a candidate or otherwise unavailable; allow for incapacitation or unavailability as a means for a sheriff to excuse himself or herself from service on the county board of elections; make technical corrections; amend KRS 117.075 to increase the deadline for a qualified voter with a disability to present to the county clerk a completed application for a mail-in absentee ballot from 7 days to 14 days; allow a qualified voter with a disability the additional ability to present to the county clerk his or her completed application for a mail-in absentee ballot by electronic mail or facsimile; allow a qualified voter with a disability the additional ability to request an application for a mail-in absentee ballot by electronic mail; amend KRS 117.085 to allow the means for request of a mail-in absentee ballot to be at the option of the voter; allow the county clerk the ability to transmit an application for a mail-in absentee ballot by facsimile or electronic mail; allow a qualified voter the ability to return to the county clerk a completed mail-in absentee ballot application by mail, electronic mail, facsimile, or in person, at the option of the voter; increase the deadline for a qualified voter to present his or her completed application for a mail-in absentee ballot from 7 days to 14 days; give any qualified voter who has applied for, but not yet received, a mail-in absentee ballot the allowance and process to vote in-person absentee or to vote on election day; make technical corrections; amend KRS 117.145 to increase the days from 15 to 45 in which the county clerk shall print and ready ballot labels for each candidate in a special election; amend KRS 117.265 to increase from 28 to 49 days before an election the deadline by which a declaration of intent must be filed to be a write-in candidate for a special election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB304/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB304.htm","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1080474,"bill_number":"HR125","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wilma Jean Bryant Rhoades.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wilma Jean Bryant Rhoades.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR125/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR125.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1080484,"bill_number":"SR143","title":"Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community.","description":"Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR143/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR143.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1080494,"bill_number":"SJR145","title":"Designate Radcliff, Kentucky, as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","description":"Designate Radcliff, Kentucky, as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR145/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR145.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1080506,"bill_number":"HB299","title":"AN ACT relating to railroad crossings.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 178 to set forth the procedures for the closure of public railroad grade crossings; provide for an appeals process; amend KRS 177.120 setting forth when the Department of Highways may consider a railroad crossing as a candidate for closure; set forth criteria for the Department of Highways to apply to railroad crossing decisions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB299/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB299.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1080516,"bill_number":"HJR130","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on US 31E in Nelson County, near Whitesides Road, in honor and memory of Howard Cheek.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on US 31E in Nelson County, near Whitesides Road, in honor and memory of Howard Cheek.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR130/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR130.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1080526,"bill_number":"HR129","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Janice Marie (Holcombe) Richmond.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Janice Marie (Holcombe) Richmond.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR129/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR129.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1080538,"bill_number":"HR127","title":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Billy C. Evans.","description":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Billy C. Evans.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR127/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR127.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1081170,"bill_number":"HJR132","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of United States Highway 421 in Leslie County in honor and memory of Charles and Ruth Roark.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of United States Highway 421 in Leslie County in honor and memory of Charles and Ruth Roark.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR132/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR132.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1081180,"bill_number":"SB127","title":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB127/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB127.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1081190,"bill_number":"SR148","title":"Honor Travis \"Machine\" Grant.","description":"Honor Travis \"Machine\" Grant.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR148/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR148.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1081201,"bill_number":"SB128","title":"AN ACT relating to utility assessments.","description":"Amend KRS 278.130 to require that the assessments paid by utilities to cover the costs of operation and staffing of the Public Service Commission be credited to the account of the commission instead of the general fund; amend KRS 278.150 to require the Department of Revenue to collect those assessments and credit them to the account of the commission instead of the general fund; amend KRS 42.409 and 48.315 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"recommitted to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB128/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB128.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1081212,"bill_number":"HB307","title":"AN ACT relating to mechanical systems.","description":"Amend KRS 236.060 to exempt compressed air receivers of 120 gallons or less from KRS 236.005 to 236.150; remove cryogenic service piping, hydrogen piping, piping associated with a pressure vessel for human occupancy, and refrigeration service piping in safety group from the list of exemptions of piping associated with boilers and pressure vessels in KRS Chapter 236.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 59)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB307/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB307.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1081221,"bill_number":"HB306","title":"AN ACT relating to STABLE Kentucky accounts.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude earnings of a STABLE Kentucky account from adjusted gross income; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164A to define a STABLE Kentucky account.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 177)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB306/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB306.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1081232,"bill_number":"HB305","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 11.200 to administratively attach the Commission on Small Business Advocacy to the Office of Entrepreneurship within the Cabinet for Economic Development; rename various offices and departments within the Cabinet for Economic Development, and create the Office of Marketing and Public Affairs and the Office of Workforce, Community Development, and Research; make conforming changes to KRS 12.020, 154.12-223, and 154.12-224; confirm Resolution 17-04 of the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 37)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB305/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB305.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1081245,"bill_number":"SB125","title":"Feb 22-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 22-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB125/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB125.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1081256,"bill_number":"SB129","title":"AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Energy and Environment Cabinet.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to rename and reorganize offices within the Energy and Environment Cabinet; change the name of the Office of General Counsel to the Office of Legal Services and create Legal Division I and Legal Division II within the office; create the Office of Communication within the Office of the Secretary; change the name of the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission to the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves; remove the Division of Technical and Administrative Support from the Department for Natural Resources; change the name of the Department for Energy Development and Independence to the Office of Energy Policy; change the name of the Division of Efficiency and Conservation to the Division of Energy Assistance within the office; delete all other divisions within the office; amend KRS 56.776 to conform; amend KRS 56.777 to conform; amend KRS 132.020 to conform; amend KRS 141.0405 to conform; amend KRS 141.428 to conform; amend KRS 141.436 to conform; amend KRS 141.470 to conform; amend KRS 143.090 to conform; amend KRS 146.210 to conform; amend KRS 146.230 to specify that the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves establishes standards for pollution of waters included in the Wild Rivers System; amend KRS 146.250 to clarify how stream boundaries are defined for streams included in the Wild Rivers System; amend KRS 146.260 to require the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to study streams for inclusion in the Wild Rivers System instead of the Energy and Environment Cabinet; amend KRS 146.270 to require the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to administer the Wild Rivers System instead of the Energy and Environment Cabinet; delete requirement that management plans relating to fish and wildlife issues be jointly developed with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; amend KRS 146.280 to authorize the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to acquire property for the Wild Rivers System instead of the secretary; amend KRS 146.290 to authorize the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to approve permitted land uses inside of Wild River System property instead of the secretary; amend KRS 146.310 to require state agencies to inform the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves of any proceedings affecting streams in the Wild River System instead of the secretary; amend KRS 146.320 to direct the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to assist with the inclusion of Kentucky streams in the federal National Wild and Scenic Rivers System instead of the secretary; amend KRS 146.330 to allow the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to hire staff to carry out its responsibilities relating to the Wild Rivers System instead of the secretary; amend KRS 146.340 to require the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to disburse moneys from the Wild Rivers System fund for purposes of administering the Wild Rivers System; amend KRS 146.350 to extend the authority of the cabinet's Office of Legal Services to taking legal action pertaining to all programs administered by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves; amend KRS 146.415 to conform; amend KRS 146.430 to create the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves; require the executive director to determine employee duties and compensation; amend KRS 146.435 to allow entities to serve as advisors to the executive director; amend KRS 146.440 to conform; amend 146.445 to conform; amend KRS 146.450 to conform; amend KRS 146.455 to conform; amend KRS 146.460 to conform; amend KRS 146.465 to expand the programs administered by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to include the Wild Rivers System, Heritage Land Conservation, and Endangered and Threatened Plants and to conform; amend KRS 146.475 to conform; amend KRS 146.480 to conform; amend KRS 146.485 to conform and change the due date for the biennial nature preserves report to October 1 of each even-numbered year; amend KRS 146.490 to conform; amend KRS 146.495 to conform; amend KRS 146.507 to conform; amend KRS 146.510 to conform; amend KRS 146.515 to conform; amend KRS 146.520 to conform; amend KRS 146.525 to require the cabinet's Office of Legal Services or the Attorney General upon the secretary's request to bring legal actions relating to violations of the statutes administered by the Kentucky Office of Nature Preserves; amend KRS 146.530 to conform; amend KRS 146.550 to define \"office\" and \"cabinet\"; amend KRS 146.560 to make changes to the composition of the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund Board; require the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to provide staff support to the board instead of the cabinet; amend KRS 146.570 to require the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves to administer the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation fund instead of the cabinet and to conform; amend KRS 146.605 to define \"cabinet\" and to conform; amend KRS 146.610 to require the quadrennial report on the Commonwealth's threatened plant species to be submitted by October 1 and to conform; amend KRS 146.990 to conform; amend KRS 149.346 to conform; amend KRS 149.348 to conform; amend KRS 151.720 to conform; amend KRS 152.712 to conform; amend KRS 152.713 to conform; amend KRS 152.714 to conform; amend KRS 152.720 to conform; amend KRS 154.27-030 to conform; amend KRS 154.27-040 to conform; amend KRS 154.27-050 to conform; amend KRS 154.27-090 to conform; amend KRS 157.455 to conform; amend KRS 160.325 to conform; amend KRS 224.10-020 to change the name of the Department for Energy Development and Independence to the Office of Energy Policy; provide that the office will be headed by an executive director; establish a Division of Energy Assistance in the Office of Energy Policy and abolish all other divisions within the office; amend KRS 224.10-022 to establish an Office of Communication within the Office of the Secretary; change the name of the Office of General Counsel to the Office of Legal Services; establish a Legal Division I and a Legal Division II within the office; amend KRS 247.920 to conform; amend KRS 353.5901 to conform; repeal KRS 146.425, relating to the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission; create a noncodified section to provide for the transfer of records, staff, property, and funds from the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission to the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves; require all rules, decisions, and actions taken by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission to stay in effect until repealed or rescinded by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 29)","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB129/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB129.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1081265,"bill_number":"SB126","title":"AN ACT relating to the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities.","description":"Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 194A.135 as a new section of KRS Chapter 41 to move the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to the Department of the Treasury.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 95)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB126/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB126.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1081277,"bill_number":"HR131","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert L. Madon.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert L. Madon.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR131/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR131.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1081286,"bill_number":"HB309","title":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 20-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB309/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB309.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1081296,"bill_number":"SR151","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Robert \"Bob\" Wagoner.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Robert \"Bob\" Wagoner.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR151/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR151.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1081309,"bill_number":"SR146","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Beuna \"Boots\" Woolums.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Beuna \"Boots\" Woolums.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR146/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR146.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1081322,"bill_number":"SR150","title":"Honor Kentucky Educational Television.","description":"Honor Kentucky Educational Television.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR150/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR150.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1081331,"bill_number":"SR152","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Robert \"J.O.\" Oldham.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Robert \"J.O.\" Oldham.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR152/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR152.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1081343,"bill_number":"SR147","title":"Honor Elmore \"the Rejecter\" \"Big E\" Smith.","description":"Honor Elmore \"the Rejecter\" \"Big E\" Smith.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR147/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR147.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1081355,"bill_number":"HB204","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"The Legislative Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund $69,693,900 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $71,248,700 for fiscal year 2019-20020; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2019-2020, with appropriations allocated as follows:","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 173)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB204/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB204.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1081366,"bill_number":"SR149","title":"Recognize the role the hospitality industry can play in disrupting child sex trafficking and encouraging residents, employees and agencies to use hotels and venues which are signatories of the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.","description":"Recognize the role the hospitality industry can play in disrupting child sex trafficking and encouraging residents, employees and agencies to use hotels and venues which are signatories of the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR149/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR149.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1081376,"bill_number":"HB308","title":"AN ACT relating to employment schedules.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good faith schedule of hours to be worked; require employers to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours and to post weekly schedules at least 7 days in advance; require employers to provide certain rest periods for employees; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty of $500 to $2,000 for a violation of these provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-05","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB308/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB308.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1082650,"bill_number":"HB315","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed carry.","description":"Amend KRS 527.020 to include an attorney specified in KRS 15.100(2) in the list of persons who may carry a concealed deadly weapon at all times and in all locations throughout the Commonwealth if the attorney has a license.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB315/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB315.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1082657,"bill_number":"SB131","title":"AN ACT relating to personnel board hearings.","description":"Amend KRS 13B.020 to include hearings by the Personnel Board in the list of administrative hearings exempt from KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 18A.0751, 18A.095, and 18A.100 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 72)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB131/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB131.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1082665,"bill_number":"SB132","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to eliminate the Division of Kentucky Access in the Department of Insurance; change the name of the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs to the Office of Specialized Pediatric Services; establish the Kentucky Office of Health Benefit Exchange in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 18A.115 to change the name of the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service to Serve Kentucky; amend KRS 194A.030 to change the name of the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs to the Office of Specialized Pediatric Services; change the name of the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service to Serve Kentucky; create and establish the requirements of the Kentucky Office of Health Benefit Exchange; amend KRS 200.460, 200.470, 200.480, 200.490, 200.495, 200.497, and 200.499 to change the name of the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs to the Office of Specialized Pediatric Services; amend KRS 304.2-020 to eliminate the Division of Kentucky Access from the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17B-001 to add definitions for \"division\" and \"office\"; amend KRS 304.17B-003 to make the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Service chair and the commissioner of the Department of Insurance the vice chair of the Kentucky Health Care Improvement Authority and to move the authority from the Department of Insurance to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 304.17B-005 to move Kentucky Access from the Department of Insurance to the Kentucky Office of Health Benefit Exchange; amend KRS 304.17B-007, 304.17B-009, 304.17B-011, 304.17B-013, 304.17B-017, 304.17B-019, 304.17B-021, 304.17B-023, 304.17B-027, 304.17B-029, 304.17B-031, 304.17B-033, and 304.17A-005 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2017-269.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 114)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB132/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB132.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1082672,"bill_number":"HR134","title":"Recognize the role that the hospitality industry can play in disrupting child sex trafficking and encouraging residents, employees, and agencies to use hotels and venues which are signatories of the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.","description":"Recognize the role that the hospitality industry can play in disrupting child sex trafficking and encouraging residents, employees, and agencies to use hotels and venues which are signatories of the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR134/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR134.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1082681,"bill_number":"HB310","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of information by governmental entities.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.085 to allow for electronic submission of specific city information by the city clerk to the Department for Local Government and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 65.905 and 65.925 to require compiled data from the uniform financial information report to be provided electronically to the Commission; delete the requirement that DLG file a copy of the report with the applicable county clerk.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 47)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB310/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB310.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1082687,"bill_number":"HB318","title":"AN ACT prohibiting tobacco use on school property.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit use of tobacco products by students, school personnel, and visitors in schools, school vehicles, properties, and activities; require policies to be in place by the 2019-2020 school year; require that smoke-free policies and signage be adopted; provide that existing bans are not impacted; repeal KRS 438.050.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB318/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB318.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1082696,"bill_number":"HB319","title":"AN ACT relating to business opportunities for United States military and veterans.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require each administrative body that issues a license, permit, certificate, or other document required to operate within a business, profession, or other occupation in the Commonwealth to issue within 30 days a license, permit, certificate, or other document to a United States military service member or veteran who is seeking a license, permit, certificate, or other document and currently holds or recently held a valid equivalent license, permit, certificate, or other document issued by another state, the District of Columbia, or any possession or territory of the United States.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 58)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB319/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB319.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1082704,"bill_number":"SB133","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 441.055 to require the Department of Corrections to promulgate administrative regulations for the jails that require adequate nutrition for pregnant inmates, adequate feminine hygiene products, and an appropriate number of undergarments for female inmates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require that pregnant inmates be restrained solely with handcuffs in front of the body unless further restraint is required to protect herself or others; ban the shackling of female inmates; amend KRS 197.020 to require the Department of Corrections to create a classification process for jails that may house female state inmates; amend KRS 532.100 to require a jail be certified before housing any female state inmates and provide a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019; amend KRS 403.725 to allow orders of protection to be filed at a domestic violence shelter or a rape crisis shelter; amend KRS 456.030 to allow interpersonal protective orders to be filed at a domestic violence shelter or a rape crisis shelter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require the reporting of allegations of sexual assaults by a jailer or any employee, contractor, vendor, or volunteer of a supervising entity to the Attorney General's Office for investigation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 439 to allow an eligible pregnant woman to be released from custody; amend KRS 431.517 to prohibit an offender charged with an offense under KRS Chapter 507 from pretrial home incarceration unless the judge makes a finding that the offender does not pose a threat to society; amend KRS 434.650, 434.655, 434.660, 434.670, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, 514.110, 514.120, and 517.060 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for various fraud and theft crimes from $500 to $1,000 if the person has not been convicted twice of the same offense in the last two years; amend KRS 439.3401 to make criminal attempt to commit murder of a peace officer or a firefighter an offense for which at least 85 percent of the sentence must be served before probation or parole; amend KRS 431.066 to eliminate monetary bond except for high-risk defendants who have not been charged with a violent or sexual offense; provide that when a court is making a bail determination for a defendant, it is based on whether a defendant poses a low, moderate, or high risk; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to provide that when a defendant poses a low or moderate risk and has been charged with a violent or sexual offense or poses a high risk, the court shall determine whether any nonfinancial conditions shall reasonably ensure the appearance of the defendant or the safety of the public; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021 and amend KRS 431.510 to conform; provide a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019, for the monetary bond provisions; provide short title.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 115)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB133/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB133.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1082713,"bill_number":"HR137","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles David Ferriell Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles David Ferriell Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR137/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR137.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1082722,"bill_number":"SR155","title":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR155/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR155.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1082728,"bill_number":"SB130","title":"AN ACT relating to campus crime reporting.","description":"Amend KRS 164.948 to conform the defined terms with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, 20 U.S.C sec. 1092; amend KRS 164.9485 to conform the crime reporting requirements of public postsecondary institutions under Kentucky law to the federal campus crime reporting requirements of 20 U.S.C. sec. 1092.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 67)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB130/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB130.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1082735,"bill_number":"HB312","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.068 to sunset the tax credit and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.396 to sunset the tax credit and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 154.20-232 to require reporting by the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 154.20-234 to sunset the tax credit provisions and to outline the types of investment that may be accepted to qualify for the tax credit; amend KRS 154.20-236 to expand the amount of tax credits awarded to all investors to $5 million, to remove the overall tax combined credit cap of $40 million, to lower the percentage amount awarded to an investor if the qualified investment is outside an enhanced incentive county, and to sunset the tax credit; amend KRS 154.20-238 to allow the qualified investor to make the qualified investment and provide proof of the qualified investment within 80 days following the date of credit approval, including weekend and holidays; amend KRS 154.20-250 to require a report by the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 154.20-255 to require that the total tax credits for all investors not exceed $3 million in any calendar year, to remove the overall combined credit cap of $40 million, and to sunset the tax credit; amend KRS 154.20-258 to lower the percentage amount awarded to an investor if the qualified investment is outside an enhanced incentive county and increase the percentage amount awarded to an investor if the qualified investment is inside an enhanced incentive county; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB312/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB312.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1082746,"bill_number":"SR153","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mattie Jo Smith.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mattie Jo Smith.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR153/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR153.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1082754,"bill_number":"HB314","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020, 224.20-320, 336.015, 338.015, and 338.061 to abolish the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Board and give the Labor Cabinet secretary the board's authority; give the Labor Cabinet secretary authority to suspend or delay administrative regulations based on the actions of the federal government relating to a corresponding federal regulation; repeal KRS 338.051; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 8)","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB314/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB314.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1082760,"bill_number":"SR156","title":"Honor the service of, and high-quality care administered by, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, and declare February 7, 2018, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Honor the service of, and high-quality care administered by, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, and declare February 7, 2018, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR156/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR156.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1082767,"bill_number":"HR136","title":"Honor Kentucky Educational Television.","description":"Honor Kentucky Educational Television.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR136/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR136.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1082776,"bill_number":"HB313","title":"AN ACT relating to the recording of wills.","description":"Amend KRS 394.300 to require the county clerk to keep only a copy of a will, and mandate return of the original to the circuit clerk; repeal KRS 394.110.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB313/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB313.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":1082784,"bill_number":"SCR154","title":"Honoring pregnancy help centers.","description":"Honoring pregnancy help centers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR154/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR154.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1082793,"bill_number":"HB311","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.197 to make language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB311/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB311.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1082799,"bill_number":"HB316","title":"AN ACT relating to the death penalty.","description":"Amend KRS 532.025 to add the murder of a victim aged 12 years old or younger or an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB316/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB316.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1082807,"bill_number":"HR133","title":"Recognize February 9, 2018, as Homeschool Day at the Capitol.","description":"Recognize February 9, 2018, as Homeschool Day at the Capitol.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR133/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR133.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1082814,"bill_number":"HJR135","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Warren County bridge in honor and memory of infant John. M. Donoho.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Warren County bridge in honor and memory of infant John. M. Donoho.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR135/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR135.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1082822,"bill_number":"HB317","title":"AN ACT relating to deferred deposit transactions.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish definitions for \"available resources,\" \"expenses,\" and \"relevant period\"; require deferred deposit service business licensees to verify a customer's available resources and expenses during each relevant period; prohibit licensees from entering into a deferred deposit transaction if the licensee determines that a customer's expenses exceed a customer's available resources during any relevant period.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-06","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB317/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB317.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1083661,"bill_number":"HJR140","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor George H. Gayheart by naming a bridge on Kentucky Route 1088 in Knott County as the \"George H. Gayheart Memorial Bridge.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor George H. Gayheart by naming a bridge on Kentucky Route 1088 in Knott County as the \"George H. Gayheart Memorial Bridge.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR140/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR140.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1083666,"bill_number":"HR139","title":"Honor the service of, and high-quality care administered by, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, and declare February 7, 2018, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Honor the service of, and high-quality care administered by, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, and declare February 7, 2018, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR139/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR139.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1083671,"bill_number":"SR157","title":"Honor the 50th anniversary of the Protest Hike, which led to the undamming of Red River Gorge, and the award-winning Kentucky Afield Radio documentary \"Kentucky's Red November.\"","description":"Honor the 50th anniversary of the Protest Hike, which led to the undamming of Red River Gorge, and the award-winning Kentucky Afield Radio documentary \"Kentucky's Red November.\"","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR157/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR157.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1083677,"bill_number":"HR141","title":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 09-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR141/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR141.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1083683,"bill_number":"HB320","title":"AN ACT relating to accommodations for pregnant employees.","description":"Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of \"reasonable accommodations,\" accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB320/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB320.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1083689,"bill_number":"HB328","title":"AN ACT relating to mechanical systems.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.660 to eliminate certain requirements for HVAC license examinations; amend KRS 198B.6673 and 198B.6678 to allow an applicant for an inspector position with a local jurisdiction or the department to become certified after the applicant has been hired.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB328/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB328.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1083694,"bill_number":"HB322","title":"AN ACT relating to planning and zoning enforcement action appeals.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 allowing a party to recover court costs and reasonable attorney's fees when appealing an action of an enforcement officer, or underlying zoning regulation or ordinance that results in a monetary penalty, is finally found to be arbitrary, unenforceable, or unconstitutional.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB322/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB322.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1083701,"bill_number":"HR142","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eugene Loyall Price.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eugene Loyall Price.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR142/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR142.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1083707,"bill_number":"SB135","title":"AN ACT relating to official documents.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after August 1, 2019; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal or online appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public's stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to create the Kentucky Notarization and Recording Standards Commission; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 62.065 to allow a surety to cover more than one required bond; repeal KRS 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-08","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB135/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB135.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1083713,"bill_number":"HB324","title":"AN ACT relating to trespass.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 511, to establish the offense of trespass upon key infrastructure assets.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 168)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB324/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB324.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1083720,"bill_number":"HB321","title":"AN ACT relating to public charter schools and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.1591 to delay implementation of public charter school project until July 1, 2020; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB321/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB321.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1083727,"bill_number":"HR138","title":"Honor Franklin Runyon Sousley.","description":"Honor Franklin Runyon Sousley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR138/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR138.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1083732,"bill_number":"SJR158","title":"Direct the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to identify historically significant Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields, develop a strategy to protect and preserve historic battlefields, and submit a report on its findings to the Legislative Research Commission before November 1, 2018.","description":"Direct the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to identify historically significant Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields, develop a strategy to protect and preserve historic battlefields, and submit a report on its findings to the Legislative Research Commission before November 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 91)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR158/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR158.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1083740,"bill_number":"SB134","title":"AN ACT relating to permits for certified professional midwives.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 314 to define \"APRN-designated certified nurse midwife,\" \"certified professional midwife,\" \"certified professional midwifery services,\" and \"council\"; create the Certified Professional Midwives Advisory Council under the Board of Nursing and establish its membership; provide that a certified professional midwife has same authority and responsibility as other licensed health care providers regarding public health laws and require each to keep appropriate medical records; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations relating to certified professional midwives, including a requirement for informed consent, fees for permits, statewide requirements for emergency transfer of care, medical tests, and a formulary of medications; permit the board to require a criminal background investigation of an applicant for a permit as a certified professional midwife by means of a fingerprint check; require the council to delineate findings on restrictions to providing certified professional midwifery services; provide immunity from liability in civil action for health care providers who have acted in consultation with a certified professional midwife; amend KRS 164.298, 211.180, 311.271, and 311.550 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB134/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB134.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1083745,"bill_number":"HB323","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes affecting insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.47-020 to make technical corrections, establish range of criminal penalties resulting from conviction of insurance fraud, allow restitution to insurers that have contracted to indemify a victim, remove conviction requirement for creating private cause of action for persons damaged by violation of statute; amend KRS 431.200, 532.032, 532.034, 532.160, 532.350, 533.030, 533.254, and 610.030 to allow restitution to insurers that have contracted to indemnify a victim, amend KRS 439.3107, 439.563, 532.162, 532.356, 532.358, and 446.010 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 178)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB323/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB323.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":1083752,"bill_number":"HB325","title":"AN ACT relating to condominiums.","description":"Amend KRS 381.870 to provide that condominium administration and maintenance fees may be allocated for as provided in the master deed.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB325/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB325.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1083756,"bill_number":"HB327","title":"AN ACT relating to statutorily mandated fees.","description":"Amend KRS 194A.050, 194A.707, 194A.729, 199.640, 199.896, 199.8982, 211.180, 211.357, 211.760, 211.976, 213.141, 217.125, 217.811, 217.924, 219.021, 219.340, 221.020, 258.043, and 333.070 to remove fee limits; require fees to be established by administrative regulation; require that fees not exceed costs to the cabinet; effective date July 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 136)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB327/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB327.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1083762,"bill_number":"HB326","title":"AN ACT relating to student accommodations in distinctly private facilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require a local board of education to grant reasonable accommodation to any student or employee unwilling or unable to use a multiple-occupancy restroom, changing facility, or sleeping quarter reserved for his or her sex; require that any multiple-occupancy restroom or changing facility within the control of a local board of education or public school, and available for student use, be designated for the exclusive use of a single sex; require that any multiple-occupancy sleeping quarter of a student on an overnight school-sponsored activity be reserved for persons of a single sex; create a private cause of action for any person damaged as a result of a violation of the section; provide that subsections (1), (2), and (4) may not be severed; and provide that the section may be cited as the Students' Right to Privacy Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB326/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB326.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1084545,"bill_number":"HB334","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":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 179)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB334/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB334.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1084549,"bill_number":"SR167","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gloria Estella Mae Edwards Parker.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gloria Estella Mae Edwards Parker.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR167/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR167.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1084554,"bill_number":"HB336","title":"AN ACT relating to legislators' retirement benefits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 6.500 to 6.577 to close the Legislators’ Retirement Plan (LRP) to new members and require new legislators to participate as nonhazardous members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS NH); for members with a participation date on or after January 1, 2014, move existing hybrid cash balance accumulated account balance to the KERS NH hybrid cash balance plan; for members with a participation date prior to January 1, 2014, provide that service credit previously accrued in the Legislators’ Retirement System remain in LRP, but future retirement benefits shall accrue in KERS NH; provide that future legislative retirees on or after the effective date of the Act, have LRP benefits calculated based solely upon legislative salary with no salary reciprocity; amend KRS 61.510 to provide that, for future legislator benefits accrued in KERS NH, “final compensation” is the creditable compensation of the member during all fiscal years of service accrued as a member of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of the Act, divided by the number of years of service as a member of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that for legislators, “membership date” is the date upon which the member began participating in any of the state-administered retirement systems; amend KRS 6.500, 6.505, 6.515, 6.520, and 6.525 to make conforming/technical changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB336/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB336.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084556,"bill_number":"SR164","title":"Honor Danny Waits for his 874K Coalition Rally speech.","description":"Honor Danny Waits for his 874K Coalition Rally speech.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR164/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR164.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1084561,"bill_number":"SR165","title":"Recognize February 2018 as Self-Care Month.","description":"Recognize February 2018 as Self-Care Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR165/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR165.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1084565,"bill_number":"HB331","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky State Parks and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow an applicant for a new or renewal motor vehicle registration to make a monetary donation of any amount to the Department of Parks; direct that contributions be deposited into the department's trust and agency account established pursuant to KRS 148.021(6); appropriate contributions for the purposes of the account; direct the Tourism, Arts and Humanities Cabinet to provide county clerks with a poster promoting the donation program; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB331/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB331.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1084568,"bill_number":"HB337","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation of prescription opioids and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 142 to impose a tax of one dollar per dose on opioids distributed in Kentucky; define relevant terms; allocate tax revenues to permanent pension fund; require registration for all persons distributing opioids in Kentucky; impose misdemeanor penalty for noncompliance; authorize the Department of Revenue to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 42.205 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB337/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB337.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084572,"bill_number":"SR159","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Stephanie Letitia Kinney as administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Stephanie Letitia Kinney as administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR159/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR159.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1084575,"bill_number":"HR147","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Raymond H. Cottrell Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Raymond H. Cottrell Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR147/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR147.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1084578,"bill_number":"SR163","title":"Confirm the appointment of Rebecca Hedgspeth to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Rebecca Hedgspeth to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR163/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR163.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1084582,"bill_number":"SB137","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence.","description":"Establish a new Kentucky Rule of Evidence to provide a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement made by a child with a physical, mental, emotional, or developmental age of 12 years or less at the time of trial or hearing describing any sexual act performed by, with, or on the child or describing any act of physical violence directed against the child.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 116)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB137/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB137.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1084587,"bill_number":"HJR146","title":"Rename the William Natcher Parkway as the William Natcher Expressway upon its upgrade to an Interstate 65 spur.","description":"Rename the William Natcher Parkway as the William Natcher Expressway upon its upgrade to an Interstate 65 spur.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR146/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR146.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1084589,"bill_number":"HB332","title":"AN ACT relating to telecommunications.","description":"Amend KRS 278.5461 to include a definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; amend KRS 278.5462 to provide that no telecommunications or Internet service provider shall collect personally identifiable information from a customer as a result of the customer's use of the telecommunications or Internet services without the customer's express written approval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB332/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB332.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1084593,"bill_number":"HB341","title":"AN ACT relating to unclassified state employees.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.155 to limit the number of certain unclassified employees to 500 and to restrict their salaries to no more than $85,000 unless approved by the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB341/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB341.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084597,"bill_number":"HB343","title":"AN ACT relating to certificates of free sale.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 260 to authorize the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to issue certificates of free sale for products that are manufactured or processed in Kentucky and not intended for human consumption.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 48)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB343/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB343.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1084602,"bill_number":"HB338","title":"AN ACT relating to a pension surcharge on state contracts to be applied to the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to create a five percent surcharge on state contracts for personnel hired in lieu of hiring a state employee; require the surcharge to be paid to the unfunded liability trust fund created under KRS 61.706 to be applied to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous pension fund; apply to all participating employers and for all memoranda of agreement and personnel service contracts, as defined in KRS 45A.690 of the Model Procurement Code.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB338/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB338.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084605,"bill_number":"HB340","title":"AN ACT relating to the oversight of tax expenditures and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define relevant terms; establish the Legislative Tax Incentive Review Committee; describe committee membership; outline committee responsibilities; require committee reporting; require committee make findings public; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB340/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB340.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084610,"bill_number":"HB333","title":"AN ACT relating to official documents.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after January 1, 2019; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal or online appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public's stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to create the Kentucky Notarization and Recording Standards Commission; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 62.065 to allow a surety to cover more than one required bond; repeal KRS 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, 423.110, 423.130, 423.140, 423.150, 423.160, 423.170, 423.180, 423.190, 423.200, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB333/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB333.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1084613,"bill_number":"SB136","title":"AN ACT relating to roadways.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177 to establish that roads originally known as parkways shall be known as freeways; amend KRS 67A.871, 154.22-040, 154.32-050, 175.590, 177.068, 177.0734, 177.076, 177.220, 177.317, 177.420, 177.830, 189.222, 189.378, 189.390, 189.580, and 216.833 to replace reference to parkway with freeway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB136/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB136.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":1084618,"bill_number":"HB342","title":"AN ACT relating to the transfer of the Division of Child Care.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to establish the Division of Child Care within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; amend KRS 199.8983 to conform; abolish the Division of Child Care within the Department for Community Based Services, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and transfer all personnel, records, files, equipment, and funds to the Division of Child Care within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB342/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB342.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1084622,"bill_number":"HJR145","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Clarence \"Soc\" Clay by placing signs declaring South Shore, on United States Route 23, in Greenup County, as the \"Home of Clarence 'Soc' Clay, 1984 Kentucky Poet Laureate.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Clarence \"Soc\" Clay by placing signs declaring South Shore, on United States Route 23, in Greenup County, as the \"Home of Clarence 'Soc' Clay, 1984 Kentucky Poet Laureate.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR145/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR145.htm","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1084626,"bill_number":"SR166","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Reverend Dr. Bernard T. Bishop Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Reverend Dr. Bernard T. Bishop Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR166/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR166.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1084630,"bill_number":"HB345","title":"AN ACT relating to surplus lines.","description":"Amend KRS 304.10-030 to include certain types of disability insurance in the definition of \"nonadmitted insurance\"; amend KRS 304.10-040 to allow licensed agents with lines of authority in health and life to export disability insurance; amend KRS 304.120 to a broker procuring surplus lines disability coverage maintain his or her agent license with lines of authority for health and life; amend KRS 304.10-180 to remove reference to Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Commission; repeal KRS 304.10-400.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 180)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB345/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB345.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1084635,"bill_number":"SR161","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Joseph J. Koester to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Joseph J. Koester to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR161/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR161.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1084639,"bill_number":"SR160","title":"Confirm the appointment of Nancy Grosser Atkins as commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Public Protection Cabinet.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Nancy Grosser Atkins as commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Public Protection Cabinet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR160/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR160.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1084643,"bill_number":"HB344","title":"Feb 13-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 13-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB344/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB344.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1084646,"bill_number":"HB339","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation of tobacco and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the underfunded pension trust fund; amend KRS 138.140 to impose a surtax on cigarettes and other tobacco products, including e-cigarettes; amend KRS 138.130 to update definitions for chapter, including adding e-cigarettes to definition of tobacco products; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB339/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB339.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084651,"bill_number":"HJR143","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 72 in Harlan County in memory of Bird Hensley Jr. and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 72 in Harlan County in memory of Bird Hensley Jr. and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR143/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR143.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1084654,"bill_number":"HB335","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members as of the effective date of the Act; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that current and future legislators shall only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB335/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB335.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1084659,"bill_number":"SR162","title":"Confirm the appointment of Lisa S. Clark to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Lisa S. Clark to the Board of Directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR162/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR162.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1084663,"bill_number":"HR144","title":"Urge the Governor to exempt Family Resource and Youth Services Centers from budget cuts through fiscal year 2020.","description":"Urge the Governor to exempt Family Resource and Youth Services Centers from budget cuts through fiscal year 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR144/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR144.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1084667,"bill_number":"HB329","title":"AN ACT relating to assistance animals.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a person with a disability or disability-related needs to make a reasonable request for an accomodation in housing to maintain an assistance animal; allow a person receiving a request to ask for documentation on the assistance animal; provide penalties for the offense of misrepresentation of an assistance animal.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-03-31","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 49)","last_action_date":"2018-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB329/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB329.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1084671,"bill_number":"HB330","title":"AN ACT relating to citations.","description":"Amend KRS 431.015 to allow a peace officer to issue a citation when the officer has probable cause to believe that a misdemeanor was committed outside of his or her presence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB330/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB330.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1085760,"bill_number":"HR149","title":"Declare pornography to be a public health crisis; encourage prosecution of obscenity.","description":"Declare pornography to be a public health crisis; encourage prosecution of obscenity.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR149/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR149.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1085767,"bill_number":"SR168","title":"Feb 14-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 14-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR168/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR168.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1085774,"bill_number":"SB139","title":"AN ACT relating to deeds to real property.","description":"Amend KRS 382.135 to describe the requisite \"full name\" for an grantor and grantee when recording a deed to real property and direct that the record is still notice and admissible as evidence if the instrument is not in compliance with the provisions as set out in this section.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 117)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB139/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB139.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1085780,"bill_number":"HB348","title":"AN ACT relating to judicial districts and circuits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population or caseload; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase circuit judges in the Sixteenth Circuit; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 57)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB348/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB348.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1085788,"bill_number":"HR148","title":"Urge Governor Matthew Bevin to declare a State of Emergency in Martin County, Kentucky, and to make emergency funds available to resolve the county's water crisis.","description":"Urge Governor Matthew Bevin to declare a State of Emergency in Martin County, Kentucky, and to make emergency funds available to resolve the county's water crisis.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR148/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR148.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1085796,"bill_number":"HR150","title":"Recognize March 2, 2018, as National Speech and Debate Education Day.","description":"Recognize March 2, 2018, as National Speech and Debate Education Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR150/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR150.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1085804,"bill_number":"SB138","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020, 45.001, and 148.522 to abolish the Office of Capital Plaza Operations of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet; confirm Executive Order 2017-0888.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 69)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB138/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB138.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1085812,"bill_number":"HB347","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.165 to extend the filing deadline for candidates upon the withdrawal of an incumbent candidate for that office; amend KRS 118.225 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB347/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB347.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1085819,"bill_number":"HJR151","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Magoffin County bridge in honor and memory of former educator Paul W. Rowe.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Magoffin County bridge in honor and memory of former educator Paul W. Rowe.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR151/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR151.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1085827,"bill_number":"HB346","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.045, 118.165, and 118A.100 to extend the filing deadline for candidates under limited circumstances of incumbent or sole candidate withdrawal, disqualification, or death; amend KRS 118.225 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB346/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB346.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1085835,"bill_number":"SB140","title":"AN ACT relating to notifications.","description":"Amend KRS 158.186 to clarify notice requirements, change duty to report to the commissioner of education, and require certification of compliance.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 66)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB140/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB140.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1085841,"bill_number":"SR169","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Donald L. Edwards.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Donald L. Edwards.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR169/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR169.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1085849,"bill_number":"HB349","title":"AN ACT relating to boarding schools.","description":"Amend KRS 159.030 to exempt a child enrolled and attending a boarding school or church boarding school from compulsory attendance at a public school; define \"boarding school\" and \"church boarding school\"; amend KRS 156.160 to provide that a boarding or church boarding school may voluntarily comply with the certification requirements of the Kentucky Board of Education; amend KRS 160.151 to include boarding schools and church boarding schools ; amend KRS 199.011 to exclude boarding schools and church boarding schools from the definition of a \"child-caring facility.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB349/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB349.htm","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1086316,"bill_number":"HB2","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.020 to limit the time period of payment of medical expenses for certain permanent partial disabilities to 780 weeks but provide a mechanism to apply for extended benefits; limit the number of drug screens for which the employer will be liable; amend KRS 342.035 to specify circumstances upon which utilization review can be waived; mandate promulgation of treatment guidelines and a pharmaceutical formulary; clarify that a fee shall not be charged when an injured worker requests the initial copy of medical records; amend KRS 342.040 to indicate that interest will not accrue when the delay in payment of benefits was caused by the employee; amend KRS 342.125 to clarify that the four-year period in which to reopen a claim begins on the date of the original order granting or denying benefits and that subsequent orders granting or denying benefits shall not be considered an original order; amend KRS 342.185 to indicate that an application for adjustment of claim for compensation for a cumulative trauma injury must be made within five years of the last injurious exposure to the cumulative trauma; amend KRS 342.270 to require commissioner of Department of Workers' Claims to promulgate regulations establishing procedures for resolution of claims; amend KRS 342.315 to include pulmonary specialist as an examiner; amend KRS 342.316 to change procedure for filing occupational disease claims; amend KRS 342.320 to change calculation of attorney fees and increase limitation on amount of fees; amend KRS 342.610 to indicate that the employee must show that the voluntary introduction of a substance into his or her body that causes a disturbance of mental or physical capacities was not the proximate cause of his or her injury; amend KRS 342.700 to allow the recovery in subrogation of indemnity and medical expenses paid to or on behalf of the employee, less a pro rata share of the employee's legal expenses; amend KRS 342.730 to increase average weekly wage caps; set time limits for total disability benefits paid to certain professional athletes; allow payment of temporary total disability benefits to be offset by gross income minus applicable taxes paid to an employee during a period of light-duty work or work in an alternative job position; provide an offset against temporary total disability benefits for salary continuation or wholly employer-funded disability retirement plans; indicate that benefits shall terminate when a plaintiff reaches age 67 or two years after the date of injury, whichever shall last occur; amend KRS 342.7305 to require employment for a minimum of one year in order to be the responsible employer in a hearing loss claim; amend KRS 342.732 to set forth parameters for retraining; delete provisions of KRS 342.792 requiring the commissioner of Department of Workers' Claims to adopt regulations regarding the \"B\" reader process; amend KRS 342.794 to require commissioner of Department of Workers' Claims to maintain a list of \"B\" readers who are pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.990 to conform; specify the applicability of substantive changes to claims arising on or after effective date of Act and remedial changes to all claims irrespective of injury date.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 40)","last_action_date":"2018-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB2/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB2.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1086319,"bill_number":"HR153","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and celebration of the conservative treatment efforts of Kentucky chiropractors and their importance to the health care delivery system in the Commonwealth.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and celebration of the conservative treatment efforts of Kentucky chiropractors and their importance to the health care delivery system in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR153/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR153.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1086322,"bill_number":"HB356","title":"AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants.","description":"Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a sex offender registrant who is 18 years of age or older and has committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from having the same residence as a minor; provide an exception if the registrant is the minor's spouse, parent, grandparent, stepparent, sibling, stepsibling, or court-appointed guardian of the minor, unless the minor was a victim of the registrant.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 181)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB356/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB356.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1086325,"bill_number":"HB350","title":"AN ACT relating to state funds.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to prohibit contracts with a person or business until that person or business agrees that he, she, or it is not engaged in boycotting a person or business based in or doing business with a member of the World Trade Organization or a jurisdiction with whom the United States has a free trade or other nondiscriminatory trade agreement; amend KRS 45A.343, 65.027, 160.303, 164A.575, 176.070, and 424.260 to add the boycott prohibition requirement to contracts made by local governments, school districts, public universities, and the Department of Highways; create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to require the investment committee of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to divest from Iran-restricted companies, Sudan-restricted companies, and companies that that boycott Israel; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21 to require the investment committee of the Judicial Retirement System to divest from Iran-restricted companies, Sudan-restricted companies, and companies that boycott Israel; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require the Teachers' Retirement System to divest from Iran-restricted companies, Sudan-restricted companies, and companies that boycott Israel; amend KRS 6.525 to include the divestment requirement for the Legislator's Retirement Plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB350/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB350.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1086328,"bill_number":"HB352","title":"AN ACT relating to employment discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 344.280 to prohibit imposition of personal liability in employment discrimination claims for employees who are supervisors or individuals involved in the employment-related decisions of the employer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB352/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB352.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1086332,"bill_number":"SR174","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Marshall Lane Steen.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Marshall Lane Steen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR174/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR174.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1086338,"bill_number":"SB141","title":"Feb 22-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 22-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB141/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB141.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1086341,"bill_number":"HB357","title":"AN ACT relating to electric utilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.030 to include affordability of rates in the determination of reasonable rates and allow the Public Service Commission to temporarily reduce return on investment after a temporary loss of billing credits or temporary rate increase; amend KRS 278.210 to authorize the Public Service Commission to conduct an audit of the performance of new meters of appliances after higher than average customer usage; amend KRS 278.255 to specify when a utility shall be subject to operations and management audits.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB357/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB357.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1086345,"bill_number":"HB353","title":"AN ACT relating to discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 344.270 to preclude actions from being filed when the same grievance already has a final order or determination by a court or the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB353/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB353.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1086348,"bill_number":"SCR176","title":"Urge the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Medicaid Services to continue to improve the provision of colorectal cancer screening services to Kentucky Medicaid recipients, which should include achieving an 80 percent colorectal cancer screening rate for certain Kentucky Medicaid recipients and holding Medicaid managed-care organizations accountable for achieving this goal; urge the DMS to ensure that all colorectal cancer screening services criteria for Medicaid managed care plans align, at a minimum, with the United States Preventative Services Task Force guidelines for reducing mortality from colorectal cancer.","description":"Urge the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Medicaid Services to continue to improve the provision of colorectal cancer screening services to Kentucky Medicaid recipients, which should include achieving an 80 percent colorectal cancer screening rate for certain Kentucky Medicaid recipients and holding Medicaid managed-care organizations accountable for achieving this goal; urge the DMS to ensure that all colorectal cancer screening services criteria for Medicaid managed care plans align, at a minimum, with the United States Preventative Services Task Force guidelines for reducing mortality from colorectal cancer.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 119)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR176/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR176.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1086352,"bill_number":"SR177","title":"Commemorate the 50th wedding anniversary of Johnny Cash and June Carter.","description":"Commemorate the 50th wedding anniversary of Johnny Cash and June Carter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR177/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR177.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1086356,"bill_number":"HCR152","title":"Honor pregnancy help centers.","description":"Honor pregnancy help centers.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 51)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR152/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR152.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1086360,"bill_number":"HB355","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.450 to set a statute of limitations of 300 days for filing a complaint in Circuit Court for a violation of KRS Chapter 344, relating to civil rights.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB355/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB355.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1086364,"bill_number":"SR172","title":"Urge the board of education or board of trustees of a school to allow teachers and other school personnel to carry firearms for their own protection.","description":"Urge the board of education or board of trustees of a school to allow teachers and other school personnel to carry firearms for their own protection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"recommitted to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR172/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR172.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1086369,"bill_number":"HB354","title":"AN ACT relating to employment discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 344.040 to exempt employers covered by a comparable or more stringent federal requirement from KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, and 344.280 if the employer files a statement with the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB354/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB354.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1086373,"bill_number":"SR170","title":"Recognize pornography as a public health crisis, acknowledge the need for education on the harmful effects of pornography, encourage prosecution of obscenity and exploitation offenses, and commend law enforcement efforts to fight Internet crimes against children.","description":"Recognize pornography as a public health crisis, acknowledge the need for education on the harmful effects of pornography, encourage prosecution of obscenity and exploitation offenses, and commend law enforcement efforts to fight Internet crimes against children.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR170/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR170.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1086376,"bill_number":"HB351","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.010 to define \"travel or accommodations intermediary\" and exclude that term from the definition of \"retailer\"; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB351/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB351.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":1086380,"bill_number":"SR175","title":"Recognize the 50th anniversary of the Walking Horse National Trainers Show on March 22 to 24, 2018.","description":"Recognize the 50th anniversary of the Walking Horse National Trainers Show on March 22 to 24, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR175/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR175.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1086383,"bill_number":"SJR173","title":"Direct the placement of an honorary roadside sign in Floyd County for the James D. Adams Middle School 8th Grade Boys' Basketball Team, 2017 state champions.","description":"Direct the placement of an honorary roadside sign in Floyd County for the James D. Adams Middle School 8th Grade Boys' Basketball Team, 2017 state champions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-12","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR173/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR173.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1086386,"bill_number":"SCR171","title":"Establish the Childhood Cancer Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","description":"Establish the Childhood Cancer Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 17)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR171/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR171.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1086390,"bill_number":"SB142","title":"AN ACT relating to training for telecommunicators.","description":"Amend KRS 15.550 to require telecommunicators that provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions to be trained in high-quality telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR).","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 65)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB142/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB142.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1087467,"bill_number":"SR180","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eugene Loyall Price.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Eugene Loyall Price.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR180/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR180.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1087479,"bill_number":"HB365","title":"AN ACT extending sales tax incentives authorized by the Kentucky Tourism Development Act.","description":"Amend KRS 148.8531 to extend the sunset date to receive tax incentives offered under the Kentucky Tourism Development Act an additional 4 years.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB365/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB365.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1087489,"bill_number":"SB145","title":"AN ACT relating to grandparent visitation rights.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 405.021 to allow grandparents to seek court-ordered visitation only in certain cases and only if the court then determines visitation would be in the best interest of the child based on listed factors.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB145/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB145.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1087501,"bill_number":"SR181","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edward W. FitzGerald.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edward W. FitzGerald.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR181/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR181.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1087514,"bill_number":"HJR157","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 160 in Harlan County in memory of SP4 Bobby Lewis Manuel and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 160 in Harlan County in memory of SP4 Bobby Lewis Manuel and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR157/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR157.htm","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1087526,"bill_number":"HR154","title":"Urge the United States Congress to pass the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to pass the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR154/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR154.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1087538,"bill_number":"HB361","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7623 to adjust the membership of the Kentucky 911 Services Board; establish terms of service on board; provide for an administrative relationship with the Office of Homeland Security; amend KRS 65.7625 to delineate the financial responsibilities of the board and the Office of Homeland Security; confirm Executive Order 2017-298.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB361/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB361.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1087552,"bill_number":"HR155","title":"Express support for the Republic of Korea and the Winter Olympic Games, and support the trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.","description":"Express support for the Republic of Korea and the Winter Olympic Games, and support the trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR155/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR155.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1087564,"bill_number":"SB143","title":"AN ACT relating to prior authorization.","description":"Create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require an insurer develop processes for electronic prior authorizations; to establish an extended length of authorization under certain circumstances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require that the Department of Medicaid Services comply with the provisions of this Act; amend KRS 205.522 to require a Medicaid managed care organization to comply with Sections 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of this Act; amend KRS 217.211 to require governmental units of the Commonwealth to promulgate administrative regulations for electronic prescribing that include electronic prior authorization standards meeting certain requirements; amend KRS 218A.171 to require governmental units of the Commonwealth to promulgate administrative regulations for electronic prescribing that include electronic prior authorization standards meeting certain requirements; amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define \"cost sharing,\" \"covered services,\" \"emergency health care services,\" \"emergency medical condition,\" \"health care services,\" \"health facility\" or \"facility,\" \"insured\" or \"covered person,\" \"medically necessary health care services,\" \"nonparticipating provider,\" and \"participating provider\"; amend KRS 304.17A-500 to remove duplicate definitions; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to include prehospital transportation in required coverage; to prohibit a requirement of a utilization review for prehospital transportation or for the provision of emergency health care services; to establish a presumption of medical necessity if a provider certifies in writing that services were emergency health care services; to allow rebuttal of presumption of medical necessity by clear and convincing evidence; to prohibit greater restrictions of emergency health care services coverage for nonparticipating providers than for participating providers; to establish time frame for notification of an insurer following provision of emergency health care services to a covered person; amend KRS 304.17A-600 to amend the definition of \"prospective review\" to include prior authorization, step therapy, preadmission review, pretreatment review, and utilization and case management; establish standard of review for \"urgent health care services\"; amend KRS 304.17A-603 to require certain written procedures of insurers be accessible on its Web site; amend KRS 304.17A-607 to require that only physicians licensed in Kentucky decisions relating to utilization reviews; to establish a time frame for providing utilization decisions; to allow for electronic format of certain required notices; to establish that an insurer's failure to respond within set time frames shall be deemed a preauthorization; amend KRS 304.17A-641 to establish preauthorization time frame requirement for emergency medical conditions or other health care services that require immediate post-evaluation or post-stabilization services; to establish that an insurer's failure to respond within set time frames shall be deemed a preauthorization; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17A-623, 304.17A-600 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010 and 304.29-241 to conform; repeal KRS 304.17A-640","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB143/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB143.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1087577,"bill_number":"SR179","title":"Acknowledge the three winners of the College Board's Eighth Annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll: Hart County Schools; Owensboro Public Schools; and the Diocese of Covington Education Office.","description":"Acknowledge the three winners of the College Board's Eighth Annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll: Hart County Schools; Owensboro Public Schools; and the Diocese of Covington Education Office.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR179/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR179.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":1087588,"bill_number":"HR162","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Allen \"Charlie\" Beck.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Allen \"Charlie\" Beck.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR162/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR162.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1087600,"bill_number":"HB362","title":"AN ACT relating to high school students pursuing military careers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring schools to offer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test annually to students in grades 10 through 12, offer counseling based on the ASVAB test results, and allow up to four excused absences to meet with a recruiter of the Armed Forces of the United States or Kentucky National Guard; amend KRS 159.035 to allow excused absences for students who meet with a military recruiter, receive ASVAB counseling, or pursue enlistment.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 170)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB362/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB362.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1087611,"bill_number":"HR156","title":"Declare that the month of May shall be recognized as Kentucky Lupus Awareness Month.","description":"Declare that the month of May shall be recognized as Kentucky Lupus Awareness Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR156/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR156.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1087626,"bill_number":"HJR158","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on United States Route 421 in Harlan County in memory of James Thomas Allen and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on United States Route 421 in Harlan County in memory of James Thomas Allen and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR158/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR158.htm","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1087638,"bill_number":"HB363","title":"AN ACT relating to public assistance reform.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to seek information from various state agencies to assist in reviewing the circumstances of individuals enrolled in Medicaid and those receiving food stamps, to determine any changes in eligibility; create a section to require the cabinet to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare and Family Services by October 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 141)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB363/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB363.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1087650,"bill_number":"HR160","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patricia Carol Stratton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patricia Carol Stratton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR160/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR160.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1087662,"bill_number":"HB364","title":"AN ACT relating to screening for hepatitis C.","description":"Amend KRS 214.160 to establish that all pregnant women be tested for hepatitis C and recommend testing for children born from a pregnant woman who has a positive hepatitis C test result.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB364/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB364.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1087675,"bill_number":"SR178","title":"Express support for the Republic of Korea and the Winter Olympic Games, and support the trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.","description":"Express support for the Republic of Korea and the Winter Olympic Games, and support the trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR178/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR178.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1087688,"bill_number":"HR161","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edward W. FitzGerald.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Edward W. FitzGerald.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR161/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR161.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1087698,"bill_number":"HB359","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.045, 118.165, and 118A.060 to change the filing deadline for certain candidates for election from the last Tuesday in January to the second Tuesday following the first Monday in January; make technical corrections; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB359/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB359.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1087710,"bill_number":"HB360","title":"AN ACT relating to state agency children.","description":"Amend KRS 158.135 to include in the definition of \"state agency children\" those children referred by a family accountability, intervention, and response team to a Department of Juvenile Justice operated or contracted day treatment program.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 56)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB360/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB360.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1087725,"bill_number":"SB144","title":"AN ACT relating to audits of county officers.","description":"Amend KRS 43.070 to allow clerks and sheriffs to enter into an agreement with the Auditor of Public Accounts to satisfy statutory audit requirements by entering into an agreed-upon procedures engagement that will be performed by the Auditor.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB144/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB144.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1087738,"bill_number":"HJR159","title":"Direct the Transportation to erect signs denoting Floyd County as \"Home of Boyd Holbrook.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation to erect signs denoting Floyd County as \"Home of Boyd Holbrook.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR159/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR159.htm","sponsor":"Larry Brown"},
{"bill_id":1087748,"bill_number":"HB358","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational license taxes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 68.197 to apply its provisions to counties with populations less than 300,000; remove the cap of one percent on license fees; remove crediting provisions between the county and the cities, except as by agreement between the city and the county; amend KRS 68.604 to conform; repeal KRS 68.198 and 68.199; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-13","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB358/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB358.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1088809,"bill_number":"HR164","title":"Honor the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Kentucky Elks Association upon the order's 150th anniversary.","description":"Honor the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Kentucky Elks Association upon the order's 150th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR164/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR164.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1088821,"bill_number":"HB374","title":"AN ACT relating to wages for employment.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, when discovered while looking at other nonsalary information, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB374/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB374.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1088834,"bill_number":"HB375","title":"AN ACT relating to corporal physical discipline.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 158.440 to 158.449 to prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 199.640 to establish that church-related privately operated child-caring agencies or facilities shall not use corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 503.110 to establish that physical force may not be used against a minor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB375/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB375.htm","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1088847,"bill_number":"HCR165","title":"Establish the Childhood Cancer Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","description":"Establish the Childhood Cancer Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR165/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR165.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":1088861,"bill_number":"SR184","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Viterisi Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Viterisi Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR184/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR184.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1088875,"bill_number":"SB146","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.165 to prohibit any candidate who seeks elected office as a member of the General Assembly, and who withdraws his or her candidacy within one week prior to the filing deadline of nomination, from being appointed to any position of employment within the legislative, executive, or judicial branch of Kentucky; the effective date of this Act is retroactive to January 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB146/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB146.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1088888,"bill_number":"SR182","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles \"Louis\" Travis.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles \"Louis\" Travis.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR182/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR182.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1088901,"bill_number":"SR183","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Franklin Polk Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Franklin Polk Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR183/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR183.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1088913,"bill_number":"HB373","title":"AN ACT relating to disclosure of body-worn camera recordings.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide definitions; specify that body-worn camera recordings are governed by the Kentucky Open Records Act and the retention of body-worn camera recordings is governed by KRS 171.410 to 170.740; provide exceptions as to when a public agency may elect not to disclose body-worn camera recordings; specify procedures for requesting body- worn camera recordings; require that any person or agency that wishes to disclose, publicly display, or duplicate body-worn camera recordings must first give notice to any non-law enforcement agency or person depicted in the recording; create a new cause of action for enumerated persons who are not provided notice of disclosure of the recording; clarify that nothing in this section should be interpreted to override KRS 17.150 or the laws governing discovery in either criminal or civil litigation or in an administrative proceeding.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 139)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB373/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB373.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1088927,"bill_number":"HB372","title":"AN ACT relating to protections of religious organizations.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to set forth legislative findings; define \"discriminatory actions,\" \"religious organization,\" \"state benefit program,\" and \"state government\"; set forth those religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by the Act; restrict state government from taking discriminatory actions against religious organizations for certain actions; allow a person to assert a claim against state government as a defense against certain discriminatory actions; require that a person assert a claim within two years; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunities except those of liability under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution; declare that the protections of free exercise of religious beliefs afforded are in addition to protections under federal and state law and federal and state constitutions; specify that if any application or provisions of the Act that is held invalid under the law, the remainder of the Act and application of its provisions shall not be affected.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB372/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB372.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1088940,"bill_number":"SR185","title":"Honor the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Kentucky Elks Association upon the order's 150th anniversary.","description":"Honor the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Kentucky Elks Association upon the order's 150th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR185/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR185.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1088955,"bill_number":"HB368","title":"AN ACT relating to auctioneers.","description":"Amend KRS 330.020 to define \"escrow account\"; amend KRS 330.060 to remove the board's authority to waive the attainment of a high school diploma for an apprentice licensed before 1985; amend KRS 330.110 to establish the conditions upon which the board may suspend or revoke a license; amend KRS 330.220 to allow auctioneers at reserve auctions and without-reserve auctions to establish reasonable, minimum bid increments once an opening bid has been offered; amend KRS 330.990 to establish jurisdiction for injunctive relief.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-06","last_action":"returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB368/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB368.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1088967,"bill_number":"HB366","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue measures, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 224.50-868 to extend the new tire fee to July 1, 2020; provide that the amount of principal which a qualified applicant may owe the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation at any one time shall not exceed $5 million; allow a 0.5% administrative fee to be paid to the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority for the administration of each project funded by the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Coal-Producing Counties and the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Tobacco Counties; require any revenue received from the sale or renewal of Child Victims' Trust Fund license plates in excess of actual costs incurred by the Transportation Cabinet be transferred to the Child Victims' Trust Fund on an annual basis; require any funds or assets recovered by the Attorney General in connection with a lawsuit be paid directly to the Commonwealth and deposited in a distinct trust and agency account for each settlement; allow expenses incurred by the Auditor of Public Accounts for required audits of federal funds be charged to the government or agency that is the subject of the audit; require each agency of the Executive Branch to remit an assessment to the Personnel Board for its operation; exempt from all state and local taxes water withdrawal fees imposed by the Kentucky River Authority; require a school district that receives an allotment for an urgent needs school, and subsequently receives funds for that facility as a result of litigation or insurance, to reimburse the Commonwealth an amount equal to the amount received; establish the Office of Employment Training Building Proceeds Fund and require up to $3 million of proceeds from the disposal of any state-owned real property by the Office be deposited into the fund; require any revenue derived from the establishment of statewide contracts by the Office of Material and Procurement Services be credited to a trust and agency account and be used to administer the program; require the insurance surcharge rate be calculated at a rate to provide sufficient funds for the Firefighters Foundation Program Fund and the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund; allow the Department for Medicaid Services to impose copayments for services rendered to Medicaid recipients, not to exceed the amount permitted by federal law or waivers; allow the Department for Medicaid Services to utilize premiums and cost-sharing for services rendered to Medicaid and KCHIP recipients not to exceed amounts permitted by federal law or waivers, however KCHIP premiums are suspended for the 2018-2020 biennium; allow the Department of Insurance to waive or assess at any rate between zero and one percent for the 2019 or 2020 plan year on any health benefit plan premiums written by an insurer in the individual market segment; allow the Personnel Cabinet to collect a pro rata assessment from all state agencies, in all three branches of government, and other organizations that are supported by the system and deposit the assessment in a restricted fund account within the Personnel Cabinet; suspend the processing all applications received by the Kentucky Film Office during the biennium and require that the Department of Revenue not process or approve any refund requests from motion picture production companies related to sales and use tax paid during the biennium; require 0.075 percent be withheld from each rate established under KRS 341.270 and 341.272 if the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund balance exceeds the balance of the trust fund as of December 31, 2017, and deposit those funds in the Service Capacity Upgrade Fund; require insurance premium taxes and retaliatory taxes from any insurer be credited to the General Fund; allow the Personnel Cabinet to collect a benefits assessment per month per employee eligible for health insurance coverage in the state group for administration of the health insurance program; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 171)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB366/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB366.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1088980,"bill_number":"HB367","title":"AN ACT establishing support for dyslexia and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to create a dyslexia trust fund to be administered by the Kentucky Department of Education to finance grants to school districts for support of students identified with characteristics of dyslexia; require a report on expenditures from the fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create a Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate with extra fees funding the dyslexia trust fund; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of license plates to include the Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 206)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB367/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB367.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1088992,"bill_number":"SB147","title":"AN ACT relating to electric utility rates and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to authorize the Kentucky Public Service Commission to consider rates of utilities with economically distressed counties in their service territory; amend KRS 278. 030 to require the commission to consider whether an increase in rates will have an adverse impact on the citizens of economically distressed counties and cap the rate of return on investment at six percent (6%); amend KRS 278.180 to provide that within six (6) months of a rate increase, ratepayers may petition the commission for a rehearing of the rate increase; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB147/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB147.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1089005,"bill_number":"SB149","title":"AN ACT relating to patient quality of life.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish membership and duties; establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the cabinet; set forth purposes, duties, and requirements.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB149/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB149.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1089019,"bill_number":"HB371","title":"AN ACT relating to the surviving spouse exemption.","description":"Amend KRS 391.030, relating to decedents' estates, to increase the surviving spouse exemption from $15,000 to $30,000.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB371/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB371.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1089031,"bill_number":"HR163","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Robert \"Bob\" Wagoner.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Robert \"Bob\" Wagoner.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR163/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR163.htm","sponsor":"Rick Rand"},
{"bill_id":1089043,"bill_number":"SB148","title":"AN ACT relating to vital statistic forms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to require that all application, record, and statistical forms relating to adoption are accessible to the public electronically by August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-14","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB148/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB148.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1089056,"bill_number":"HB370","title":"AN ACT relating to property redevelopment.","description":"Amend KRS 224.1-512 to redefine \"remediation\" and \"site\"; amend KRS 224.1-514 to update the application requirements, application fee, and public notice; replace a covenant not to sue with a corrective action liability agreement; amend KRS 224.1-516 to reduce the time for cabinet to notify applicant on the status of the application from 45 days to 30 days and update requirements for resubmittal; amend KRS 224.1-520 to specify the statutes that will be used to evaluate whether the site characterization plan is in conformity; delete detailed requirements for the corrective action plan; amend KRS 224.1-522 to include public comment period before taking action on the corrective action plan; delete the time frames associated with additional information submittals; amend KRS 224.1-524 to require notice for public comment to days after submitting corrective action plan and post signage; amend KRS 224.1-526 to deletes language referring to reimbursement of costs for cabinet site investigation; change covenant not to sue to correction action liability agreement; require the corrective action liability agreement to run with the land; amend KRS 224.1-528 to delete cabinet withdrawal from negotiations from the list of final determinations; make conforming changes; repeal KRS 224.1-518.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 98)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB370/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB370.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1089068,"bill_number":"HB369","title":"AN ACT relating to contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 360.010 to specify when parties are bound to interest rate in contract and the interest rate parties are entitled to receive after default; create a new section of KRS Chapter 371 to specify that an obligation to pay or satisfy a debt is not extinguished by any action taken by a creditor for the purposes of the creditor's own financial, tax, or accounting records or affairs.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 140)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB369/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB369.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1090159,"bill_number":"HB380","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.367 to change the deadline for filing a statement-of-candidacy form from April 1 to the last Tuesday in January.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-06","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB380/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB380.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1090161,"bill_number":"SB161","title":"AN ACT relating to mobile command centers owned by a local government.","description":"Amend KRS 189.910 to add mobile command centers owned by a local government, to the definition of \"emergency vehicle\"; amend KRS 189.920 to allow mobile command centers owned by a local government, to use red oscillating lights.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB161/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB161.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1090165,"bill_number":"SR203","title":"Honor the Lindsey Wilson College women's volleyball team upon winning the 2017 NAIA National Championship.","description":"Honor the Lindsey Wilson College women's volleyball team upon winning the 2017 NAIA National Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR203/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR203.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090169,"bill_number":"SB162","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a safety response program using less-than-lethal weapons; define \"less-than-lethal ammunition\" and \"less-than-lethal weapon\"; require school employees to be trained for participation in the program; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide or certify the training; establish requirements for the storage of less-than-lethal weapons on school property; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Kentucky State Police to establish the less-than-lethal weapon training program and the approved list of less-than-lethal weapons; amend KRS 527.070 to allow a person to possess a weapon on school property as part of a school safety response program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB162/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB162.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1090173,"bill_number":"SB152","title":"AN ACT relating to teacher compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 157.390 to allow school districts to provide compensation in addition to that provided in the single salary schedule for all classroom teachers in a school identified as being in targeted or comprehensive support and improvement status.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 71)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB152/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB152.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1090177,"bill_number":"HB381","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.045, 118A.100, and 118.365 to move the filing deadlines for certain candidates from the second Tuesday in August to the Tuesday following to first Monday in June preceding a regular election; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 162)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB381/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB381.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1090182,"bill_number":"SB156","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB156/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB156.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090187,"bill_number":"SB154","title":"AN ACT relating to health care transparency.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define \"covered service,\" \"emergency medical condition,\" \"health care service,\" and \"insured\" or \"covered person\"; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"allowed amount,\" \"average allowed amount,\" \"comparable health care service,\" \"nonemergency health care service,\" \"nonparticipating provider,\" and \"participating provider\"; require, for all health benefit plans, insurers to develop and implement an incentive program for covered persons who elect to receive a comparable health care service; require insurers to establish an interactive mechanism on a publicly accessible Web site that enables covered persons to obtain information about amounts paid for health care services by their insurer and a good-faith estimate of out-of-pocket costs for a nonemergency health care service; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain nonemergency services provided by a nonparticipating provider at prices that are the same or less than the average allowed amount for participating providers; amend KRS 304.17A-254 and 304.17A-527 to require insurers to obtain approval of the incentive program offered by that insurer from the Department of Insurance; require contracts with participating providers to include a clause requiring the provider to provide sufficient information to covered persons for the person to receive a good-faith estimate pursuant to the Act; amend KRS 304.17A-505 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require nonparticipating providers to disclose the price of nonemergency health care services to covered persons; require health care providers to post notice to patients of their rights under this Act and to disclose prices charged for the most common health care services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services or a managed care organization contracted to provide Medicaid services to develop, implement, establish, and provide the same incentive program, interactive mechanism, and coverage to Medicaid recipients that are required for insurers under the Act; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB154/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB154.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1090190,"bill_number":"SB160","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of consumer goods during a state of emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.372 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.374 to revise the time of an initial order to 15 days, provide for early termination, and clarify when prices are not in violation of the statute; amend KRS 367.374 to limit the total civil penalty allowed to $25,000 for any 24 hour period and limit additional penalties.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 93)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB160/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB160.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1090195,"bill_number":"SR193","title":"Confirm the appointment of Delana Sue Sanders to the Kentucky Claims Commission, replacing Jessica Ann Burke, for the remainder of the term expiring September 30, 2018.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Delana Sue Sanders to the Kentucky Claims Commission, replacing Jessica Ann Burke, for the remainder of the term expiring September 30, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR193/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR193.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090201,"bill_number":"SR201","title":"Honor Dr. James A. Ewing upon his retirement.","description":"Honor Dr. James A. Ewing upon his retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR201/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR201.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090204,"bill_number":"HB379","title":"AN ACT relating to microbreweries.","description":"Amend KRS 243.157 to prohibit the shipment of malt beverages by a microbrewery to a customer's residence or place of business.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB379/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB379.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1090208,"bill_number":"HCR168","title":"Urge the United States Congress to adequately fund efforts to publicize and educate the public about the 2020 United States Census to ensure an accurate count of the population; encourage local governments in Kentucky to publicize and educate the public about the importance of the 2020 United States Census and supplement the efforts of the federal government when needed.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to adequately fund efforts to publicize and educate the public about the 2020 United States Census to ensure an accurate count of the population; encourage local governments in Kentucky to publicize and educate the public about the importance of the 2020 United States Census and supplement the efforts of the federal government when needed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR168/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR168.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1090213,"bill_number":"SB150","title":"AN ACT relating to executive branch ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 13B.020 to include hearings by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission in the list of administrative hearings exempt from KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 11A.100 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 188)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB150/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB150.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1090218,"bill_number":"HB383","title":"AN ACT relating to transient room taxes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 91A.350 to 91A.394, and amend KRS 153.440, and 153.450 to define \"like or similar accommodations businesses,\" \"person,\" \"rent,\" and \"travel or accommodations intermediary\" for purposes of local transient room taxes; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB383/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB383.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1090222,"bill_number":"SB153","title":"AN ACT relating to the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to enact and enter into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for physicians.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB153/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB153.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1090225,"bill_number":"HB384","title":"AN ACT relating to advertising devices located at professional sports facilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 177.830 to 177.890 to define \"professional sports facility\"; allow an advertising device to be erected on the premises of a professional sports facility; outline procedure for the erection of an advertising device; establish a limit of one advertising device at each professional sports facility; outline restrictions; provide process for advertising device registration after transfer or sale of a professional sports facility; exempt advertising devices from static billboard exchange requirements; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 177.841 and KRS 177.860 to exempt advertising devices erected at professional sports facilities.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB384/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB384.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1090229,"bill_number":"SB157","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB157/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB157.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090233,"bill_number":"SB155","title":"AN ACT relating to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB155/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB155.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090237,"bill_number":"HB385","title":"AN ACT relating to design/build projects.","description":"Amend KRS 176.431 to, in each fiscal year, allow 5 major design/build road and bridge projects at a total cumulative cost no greater than $300,000,000 and 10 projects not to exceed a total cumulative cost of $75,000,000.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB385/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB385.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1090243,"bill_number":"HR169","title":"Encourage the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study Sickle Cell Disease and the establishment of a State Sickle Cell Registry.","description":"Encourage the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study Sickle Cell Disease and the establishment of a State Sickle Cell Registry.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR169/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR169.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1090247,"bill_number":"HR166","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. James E. \"Jimmy\" Carter.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. James E. \"Jimmy\" Carter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR166/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR166.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1090250,"bill_number":"HJR167","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 15 at Kentucky Route 451 in Perry County as the \"Veterans Memorial Bridge\" and to erect appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 15 at Kentucky Route 451 in Perry County as the \"Veterans Memorial Bridge\" and to erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR167/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR167.htm","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1090255,"bill_number":"HB378","title":"AN ACT relating to notice.","description":"Amend KRS 383.195 to provide that in when there is no written contract, or a tenancy at will or by sufferance, the landlord may terminate the tenancy giving seven (7) day's notice,","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB378/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB378.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1090258,"bill_number":"SR202","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Creon Melson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Creon Melson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR202/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR202.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090262,"bill_number":"SR192","title":"Confirm the appointment of Kenny L. Knott to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Kenny L. Knott to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR192/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR192.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090269,"bill_number":"SR189","title":"Confirm the appointment of Kimberly Thapar to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Kimberly Thapar to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR189/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR189.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090272,"bill_number":"HB376","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 restructure the voting restrictions relating to felons and persons with mental disabilities; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB376/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB376.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1090278,"bill_number":"SJR204","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 610 in Pike County in honor and memory of Hobart Clay Johnson.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 610 in Pike County in honor and memory of Hobart Clay Johnson.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR204/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR204.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1090281,"bill_number":"HB387","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of firearms and ammunition by local governments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow consolidated local governments to regulate firearms and ammunition to reduce gun violence, except when state or federal law preemepts local governance; amend KRS 65.870 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB387/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB387.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":1090286,"bill_number":"SB158","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB158/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB158.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090291,"bill_number":"SR187","title":"Confirm the appointment of Joanna Shake to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Joanna Shake to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR187/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR187.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090294,"bill_number":"SB151","title":"AN ACT relating to the local provision of wastewater services.","description":"Amend KRS 65.240, relating to interlocal agreements, KRS 74.407, relating to water districts, KRS 76.080, relating to metropolitan sewer districts, KRS 76.231, relating to joint sewer agencies, KRS 76.325, relating to sewer construction districts, and create a new section of KRS 220.010 to 220.540, relating to sanitation districts, to allow each agency or entity to contract with other entities to acquire wastewater facilities in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation, repair, or maintenance when the entity's facilities are outside of that particular agency's jurisdictional boundaries.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 107)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB151/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB151.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":1090298,"bill_number":"HR171","title":"Declare February 26 through March 4, 2018, as Eating Disorder Awareness Week in Kentucky, in conjunction with the observance of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.","description":"Declare February 26 through March 4, 2018, as Eating Disorder Awareness Week in Kentucky, in conjunction with the observance of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR171/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR171.htm","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1090302,"bill_number":"HB377","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional offenses eligible for expungement; reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions which have not been pardoned.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB377/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB377.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1090305,"bill_number":"SR186","title":"Confirm the appointment of Lisa Mann to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Lisa Mann to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR186/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR186.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090309,"bill_number":"SR194","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Carlo R. Wessels to the Kentucky Claims Commission for a term expiring September 30, 2020.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Carlo R. Wessels to the Kentucky Claims Commission for a term expiring September 30, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR194/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR194.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090315,"bill_number":"SR199","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bryan Bob Lynn Robertson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bryan Bob Lynn Robertson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR199/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR199.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090320,"bill_number":"SR205","title":"Honor Lorenzo Linsey of the Wayne County High School football team.","description":"Honor Lorenzo Linsey of the Wayne County High School football team.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR205/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR205.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090324,"bill_number":"HB386","title":"Feb 26-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 26-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB386/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB386.htm","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1090328,"bill_number":"SR200","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Donald Hall \"Don\" Bishop.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Donald Hall \"Don\" Bishop.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR200/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR200.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090333,"bill_number":"SR197","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Susan Elizabeth Rhineheimer Johns.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Susan Elizabeth Rhineheimer Johns.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR197/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR197.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1090338,"bill_number":"SR198","title":"Honor the Adair County High School marching band.","description":"Honor the Adair County High School marching band.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR198/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR198.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090342,"bill_number":"HB382","title":"AN ACT relating to the Labor Cabinet.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to remove the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds from the Department of Workers' Claims and remove the Occupational Health and Safety Standards Board; amend KRS 224.20-320 to remove the OSH Standards Board and insert the Labor Cabinet secretary; amend KRS 336.015 to remove the OSH Standards Board; amend KRS 336.020 to remove the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds from the Department of Workers' Claims; create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to set forth the authority of the inspector general including subpoena power; amend KRS 338.015 to remove the OSH Standards Board from the definitions; amend KRS 338.061 to remove the OSH Standards Board and give the Labor Cabinet secretary its authority; amend KRS 342.120 to give the Kentucky Workers' Compensation funding commission the authority as formerly possessed by the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds to be responsible for the special fund claims and records; amend KRS 342.232 to require the funding commission and KEMI to report on the CWP fund annually instead of quarterly; amend KRS 342.265 to conform; repeal KRS 337.200 and 337.994 pertaining to performance bonds for wages from employers engaged in construction work or the severance, preparation, or transportation of minerals, KRS 338.051 abolishing the OSH Standards Board, and KRS 342.235 relating to travel expenses for the Department of Workers' Claims staff.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"recommitted to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB382/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB382.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1090346,"bill_number":"SR188","title":"Confirm the appointment of Tammy Weidinger to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Tammy Weidinger to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR188/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR188.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090350,"bill_number":"SR195","title":"Confirm the appointment of George Nichols III to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","description":"Confirm the appointment of George Nichols III to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"passed 35-0","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR195/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR195.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1090355,"bill_number":"HR170","title":"Honor Ananias Lorenzo Garvin, the first African-American hired by the University of Kentucky Agricultural Extension Service.","description":"Honor Ananias Lorenzo Garvin, the first African-American hired by the University of Kentucky Agricultural Extension Service.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR170/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR170.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1090360,"bill_number":"SR206","title":"Honor the 2018 Campbellsville University women's wrestling team upon winning the 2018 WCWA National Championship.","description":"Honor the 2018 Campbellsville University women's wrestling team upon winning the 2018 WCWA National Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR206/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR206.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090364,"bill_number":"SR196","title":"Honor the West Jessamine High School girls' soccer team upon winning the 2017 KHSAA State Championship.","description":"Honor the West Jessamine High School girls' soccer team upon winning the 2017 KHSAA State Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR196/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR196.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1090368,"bill_number":"SB159","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB159/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB159.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1090905,"bill_number":"HB388","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission.","description":"Amend KRS 342.0011 to define \"deductible program adjustment\" and specify items to be considered on policies with provision for deductibles; amend KRS 342.122 to require all assessments to be remitted electronically beginning on January 1, 2020; amend KRS 342.1221 to clarify that interest is paid for late payment of expenses; amend KRS 342.1231 to change the term \"taxpayer\" to \"assessment payer\"; set a 7-year limitation from the date of the quarterly premium report or amended quarterly premium report for assessments; require records to be preserved for audits, explain when payment is final, and when a refund should be returned; amend KRS 342.1242 to require KEMI to reimburse for expenses to collect the coal assessment; amend KRS 342.1243 to clarify when assessments for the coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund cease and when the fund is abolished.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 54)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB388/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB388.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1090968,"bill_number":"SR207","title":"Honor the University Heights Academy robotics team.","description":"Honor the University Heights Academy robotics team.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR207/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR207.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1091033,"bill_number":"HB389","title":"AN ACT to relating to the collection and remittance of use tax by remote sellers.","description":"Amend KRS 139.340 to require certain remote sellers to collect use tax on sales of tangible personal property or digital property delivered or transferred electronically to purchasers in this state; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB389/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB389.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1091093,"bill_number":"SB163","title":"AN ACT relating to early periodic screening, diagnostic and treatment benefits provided to all Medicaid members in a licensed prescribed pediatric extended care facility.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 205.510 TO 205.560 to establish that the Department for Medicaid Services shall directly administer all early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment benefits for all Medicaid members.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB163/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB163.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1091157,"bill_number":"SR208","title":"Encourage the United States Attorney General and the Attorney General of the state of Kentucky to investigate the Humane Society of the United States for false and misleading fundraising practices.","description":"Encourage the United States Attorney General and the Attorney General of the state of Kentucky to investigate the Humane Society of the United States for false and misleading fundraising practices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-20","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR208/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR208.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1091218,"bill_number":"HJR172","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 41 in Christian County in honor and memory of Herb Covington.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 41 in Christian County in honor and memory of Herb Covington.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-16","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR172/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR172.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1093952,"bill_number":"SJR214","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate twin bridges on United States Highway 460 in Pike County in honor and memory of Harrell Caudill and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate twin bridges on United States Highway 460 in Pike County in honor and memory of Harrell Caudill and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR214/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR214.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1093954,"bill_number":"SB172","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful to require a job applicant to disclose his or her criminal history prior to making an offer of employment to the applicant.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB172/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB172.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1093958,"bill_number":"SB165","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to elections of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky to increase the number of years in a term for a Senator from four to six years and to increase the number of years in a term for a Representative from two to four years beginning with the regular election in November 2020; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB165/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB165.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1093960,"bill_number":"HB404","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 6.661 to establish the same restrictions on the political activity of the executive director and staff of the Legislative Ethics Commission as are established for members of the commission; amend KRS 6.686 to allow complaints to be filed against former legislators under certain circumstances; amend KRS 6.701 to require ethics education and training for partisan and nonpartisan staff of the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 6.706 to require distribution of the ethics education manual to partisan and nonpartisan staff of the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 6.716 to reduce the current issues seminar from three to two hours and to remove the requirement that the current issues seminar be authorized for continuing legal education ethics credit; amend KRS 6.731 to prohibit legislators from issuing mass mailings at public expense within 90 days of a regular election and provide that a violation is ethical misconduct; amend KRS 6.767 to allow acceptance of campaign contributions from the employer of a legislative agent or a permanent committee as defined in KRS 121.015 if postmarked prior to the first day of a regular session of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.811 to prohibit the spouse of a legislator from being employed as a legislative agent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB404/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB404.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1093963,"bill_number":"HJR173","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on KY Route 66 in Bell County in honor and memory of fallen firefighter Ted Rodney Collett.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on KY Route 66 in Bell County in honor and memory of fallen firefighter Ted Rodney Collett.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR173/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR173.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1093966,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to provide that the \"inviolable contract\" provisions shall not apply to legislative changes to Legislators' Retirement Plan (LRP) that become effective on or after July 1, 2018; make technical changes; amend KRS 6.520 to reduce the benefit factor of LRP members who began participating prior to 1/1/2014 to 1.97%; amend KRS 6.525 to recalculate current and future LRP retiree benefits effective 1/1/2019 so that the benefit from LRP is based solely upon salary earned as a legislator; amend KRS 6.518 to conform; amend KRS 21.360 to provide that the \"inviolable contract\" provisions shall not apply to legislative changes to the Judicial Retirement Plan (JRP) that become effective on or after July 1, 2018; make technical changes; amend KRS 21.374 to remove provisions relative to the election to participate in the cash balance plan by existing members and amend to provide that LRP and JRP members may elect to cease participating in LRP or JRP and participate prospectively in KERS in the new optional 401(a) money purchase plan for any future service as a legislator, judge, or justice; amend KRS 21.402 to change the interest credit in the JRP/LRP cash balance plans to 85% of the 5-year smoothed return above 0% if the member is contributing to a state-administered retirement system or plan and 0% if the person is not contributing to a state-administered retirement system or plan; amend KRS 21.460 to prohibit the purchase of recontributions of refunds to LRP/JRP by members who are participating in the 401(a) money purchase plan provided by this Act; amend KRS 21.480 to provide that the \"inviolable contract\" provisions shall not apply to legislative changes to JRP that become effective on or after July 1, 2018; make technical changes; amend KRS 21.372 and 21.385 to make technical/conforming amendments to JRP/LRP statutes; create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to establish an optional 401(a) money purchase plan for new nonhazardous members who begin participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after January 1, 2019, who elect to participate in the plan; provide that the optional money purchase plan shall be a mandatory defined contribution plan that will operate as another benefit tier in KERS/CERS and will include a 4% employer contribution; provide that the investment options for members of the money purchase plan shall be determined by theKentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) board and may include options for investing in system assets, investment options provided by an external vendor selected by the KRS board, or investment options provided through an agreement with the Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority (KDC); provide for a 5-year vesting period for employer contributions in the 401(a) money purchase plan; provide that a member can retire and take a refund or his or her account or annuitize his or her account balance in the 401(a) money purchase plan into one of the payment options provided by the system upon reaching age 65 with 5 years' service or upon meeting a combined age and service requirement of 87 years with a minimum age of 57; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 relative to State Police Retirement System (SPRS), KERS, and CERS to exclude uniform and equipment allowances from the definition of creditable compensation, require that a final compensation based upon the highest 3 (hazardous) or highest 5 (nonhazardous) years of creditable compensation must contain at least 36 or 60 months, as applicable, for those members retiring on or after January 1, 2019; for Tier I nonhazardous KERS and CERS members retiring on or after July 1, 2023, prohibit lump-sum payments for compensatory time at retirement from increasing retirement benefit calculations; define \"nonhazardous position\" and \"accumulated employer contribution\" and make technical and conforming changes; amend KRS 61.546 and 78.616 to provide that members of KERS/CERS/SPRS who retire on or after August 1, 2018, shall not receive sick leave service creditfor more than the sick leave they have accumulated as of July 31, 2018, and shall not be eligible to use sick leave service credit for purposes of determining retirement eligibility; provide that no additional KERS/CERS agencies may elect to adopt a sick leave program on or after August 1, 2018; amend KRS 61.565 to define normal cost for purposes of funding for KERS, CERS, SPRS, LRP, and JRP; provide that costs for the optional 401(a) money purchase plan shall be included in the normal cost calculation; provide that for the 2019 actuarial valuation the unfunded liabilities shall be financed using a level dollar amortization method and that unfunded liability payments shall be prorated to each employer based upon the employer's average share of payroll over fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017, except for those employers who have ceased participation; provide that employer funding requirements shall be determined using the entry age normal cost method, a 5-year asset smoothing method, and assumptions adopted by the KRS board; provide that KERS and SPRS rates shall be adjusted annually rather than on a biennial basis in the 2020-2022 budget biennium; amend KRS 61.597 to change the interest credit for KERS/CERS nonhazardous members in the cash balance plan to 85% of the 10-year smoothed return above 0% if the member is contributing to a state-administered retirement system or plan and 0% if the person is not contributing to a state-administered retirement system or plan; amend KRS 16.601 to provide that in the event of a line-of-duty death of a KERS, CERS, or SPRS hazardous member, the spouse shall supersede the beneficiary designation on file; amend KRS 61.552 to provide that members who begin participating in the optional 401(a) money purchase plan shall not be eligible to purchase service credit and to make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that a member in the optional 401(a) money purchase plan shall be credited with employee and employer contributions if called to active duty military service while working; amend KRS 61.637 to specify required breaks in employment for KERS, CERS, SPRS, LRP, JRP, and Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) retirees who retire on or after January 1, 2019, and are reemployed on or after January 1, 2019, and to provide that these reemployed retirees shall not earn a second retirement account upon reemployment; amend KRS 61.702 to require KRS employees who began participating on or after July 1, 2003, but prior to September 1, 2008, to contribute towards retiree health funding an amount equivalent to the lesser of the normal cost of the retiree health benefit or 3% of creditable compensation; provide that the increase in the employee contribution rate shall be phased-in over a 3-year period and may be adjusted annually after that date by the KRS board in increments of 0.25% of pay if the normal cost decreases/increases, but in no case shall it exceed 3% of creditable compensation; amend KRS 61.705 to provide that members who begin participating on or after January 1, 2014, shall not be eligible for the $5,000 death benefit payable to KERS, CERS, and SPRS retired members with at least 4 years of service; amend KRS 16.652, 61.692, and 78.852 to provide that the KERS, CERS, and SPRS \"inviolable contract\" provisions shall not apply to legislative changes that become effective on or after July 1, 2018; make technical changes; amend KRS 61.5955 to remove provisions relative to election by pre-2014 KERS, CERS, and SPRS members to participate in a cash balance plan and amend to provide that KERS and CERS nonhazardous members may elect to cease participating in the pension plan and participate prospectively in the optional 401(a) money purchase plan for future service; amend KRS 61.655 to provide that no member of the General Assembly, public servant, or trustee or employee of the KRS board shall have any interest in the business of KRS while employed/serving and for a period of 5 years following employment/service (starting from July 1, 2017); amend KRS 16.583, 16.645, 61.575, 61.595, 78.640, 61.580, 61.559, 61.605, 61.640, 61.680, 78.545, and 78.650 to make technical/conforming amendments; create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to establish a hybrid cash balance plan for new Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) members who begin participating on or after January 1, 2019; provide that the hybrid cash balance plan shall operate as another benefit tier in TRS and will include an 8% employer credit for non-university members and a 4% employer credit for university members; provide for a 5-year vesting period for employer credits in the TRS hybrid cash balance plan; provide that a member can retire and take a refund of his or her account or annuitize his or her account balance in the TRS hybrid cash balance plan into one of the payment options provided by the system upon reaching age 65 with 5 years' service or upon meeting a combined age and service requirement of 87 years with a minimum age of 57; allow a TRS member with less than 5 years of service to elect participation in the hybrid cash balance plan; amend KRS 161.155 to limit the amount of sick leave payments that can be applied to TRS retirement benefit calculations to the amount of sick days accumulated as of July 31, 2018; retain current high-3 final average salary provisions for TRS members with 20 or more years of service as of July 31, 2018; provide that TRS members with less than 20 years of service as of July 31, 2018, may qualify for a high-3 final average salary calculation if he or she is at least age 60 and has at least 35 years of service; define \"university member,\" \"nonuniversity member,\" \"accumulated account balance,\" and \"accumulated employer credit\"; amend KRS 161.460 to provide that no member of the General Assembly, public servant, or trustee or employee of the TRS board shall have any interest in the business of TRS while employed/serving and for a period of 5 years following employment/service (starting from July 1, 2017); amend KRS 161.470 to provide that new members of TRS cannot purchase recontributions of refunds and existing members cannot use recontributions of refunds for purposes of determining the date the individual became a member of TRS; amend KRS 161.480, 161.500, 161.507, 161.515, 161.545, 161.5465, 161.547, 161.548, 161.549, and 161.595 to remove certain service purchase provisions for new TRS members effective January 1, 2019; make technical/conforming amendments; amend KRS 161.540 to provide that the employee contribution to fund TRS retiree health benefits for all members shall be increased by the TRS board in 1% of pay increments if the retiree health fund falls below 25% funded, experiences a drop in the funding level for 3 consecutive valuations, or experiences a drop in the funding level of more than 10% over 2 consecutive valuations; amend KRS 161.550 to require TRS employers to pay the full actuarially required contribution rate; provide that for the employer rates payable on or after July 1, 2020, the unfunded liabilities shall be financed using a level dollar amortization method and to prorate unfunded liability payments to each employer based upon the employer's average share of payroll over fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017; provide that employer funding requirements shall be determined using the entry age normal cost method; a 5-year asset smoothing method, and assumptions adopted by the TRS board; define \"normal cost\" and \"actuarially accrued unfunded liability contribution,\" and provide that local school districts shall pay 2% of pay towards the costs of new TRS members retirement benefits; amend KRS 161.568 to prohibit new members, effective January 1, 2019, from transferring service into TRS from an optional defined contribution retirement plan administered by university employers; amend KRS 161.605 to provide that TRS members who retire on or after January 1, 2019, and return to work shall be subject to the amended reemployment after retirement provisions of KRS 61.637; amend KRS 161.620 to provide that TRS members with 20 or more years of service as of July 31, 2018, shall continue to beeligible for a 3% benefit factor for years of service in excess of 30; provide that TRS members with less than 20 years of service as of July 31, 2018, shall be eligible for a 3% benefit factor for years of service in excess of 35 if the member is at least 60 years of age; provide that TRS retirees will receive a 0.75% COLA in lieu of a 1.5% COLA if the pension fund is less than 90% funded as of the most recent valuation for COLAs provided from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2030; provide that new TRS retirees will receive a 0.75% COLA in lieu of a 1.5% COLA if the pension fund is less than 90% funded as of the most recent valuation for COLAs provided for twelve years following retirement; provide that the TRS COLA provisions do not apply to new members, effective January 1, 2019; amend KRS 161.623 to limit sick leave service credit to the level of sick leave accumulated as of July 31, 2018, for TRS members receiving service credit for accumulated sick leave; provide that agencies who have not elected a TRS sick leave program may not do so on or after August 1, 2018; amend KRS 161.655 to provide that the life insurance benefit from TRS shall not be applicable to new members, effective January 1, 2019; amend KRS 161.661 to conform TRS disability provisions to the plans for new members; amend KRS 161.714 to provide that the TRS \"inviolable contract\" provisions shall not apply to legislative changes that become effective on or after July 1, 2018 or to new TRS members with the exception of the new member's accumulated account balance; amend KRS 161.400, 161.420, 161.480, 161.520, 161.522, 161.525, 161.580, 161.585, 161.590, 161.600, 161.612, 161.615, 161.630, 161.650, and 161.700 to make technical/conforming TRS amendments; amend KRS 7A.250 to provide that the Public Pension Oversight Board's hiring of an actuary to perform a review of state-retirement system rates is voluntary; make conforming/technical amendments; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to establish conflict of interest provisions for Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority (KDC) employees and trustees; provide that no member of the General Assembly, public servant, or trustee or employee of the KDC board shall have any interest in the business of KDC while employed/serving and for a period of 5 years following employment/service (starting from July 1, 2017); amend KRS 11A.010 to make the KDC board subject to the Executive Branch Code of Ethics; amend KRS 18A.245 to make conforming/technical amendments; require the Public Pension Oversight Board (PPOB) to establish an advisory committee to evaluate CERS separation/restructuring of the KRS systems and report recommendations to the PPOB no later than December 1, 2019; provide that line-of-duty death changes to KRS 16.601 are applicable to surviving spouses of hazardous members who died in the line of duty on or after January 1, 2017; provide severability clause.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"recommitted to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB1.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":1093969,"bill_number":"HB392","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define the term \"personal listening device\"; prohibit the operator of a motor vehicle in motion traveling upon the traveled portion of the highway from operating the vehicle with personal listening devices covering or inserted into both ears; exempt headset systems used on motorcycles from the prohibition.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB392/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB392.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1093971,"bill_number":"SB164","title":"AN ACT relating to abortion.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit abortion except in the case of rape or incest or where the pregnancy poses a threat to the mother's life or serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the process for reviewing a physician's determination that a pregnancy poses a threat to the mother's life or serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to allow for severability; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to create a short title.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB164/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB164.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1093975,"bill_number":"HB407","title":"AN ACT relating to bonds.","description":"Amend KRS 426.705 to clarify the interest rate on bonds on property purchased at a judicially ordered sale.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB407/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB407.htm","sponsor":"Russ Meyer"},
{"bill_id":1093977,"bill_number":"HB396","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 186.990 to reclassify select non-DUI traffic and licensure offenses from misdemeanors to violations; increase the felony threshold for registering a vehicle out of state to avoid taxation from $500 to $2,000 and create a Class B misdemeanor level for offenses of less than $100; amend KRS 186.991 to reclassify offenses related to truck or tractor dealer-demonstrator tags from Class B misdemeanors to violations; amend KRS 186A.990 to reclassify offenses related to temporary motor vehicle tags from Class B misdemeanors to violations, and offenses without prescribed penalties from Class A misdemeanors to violations; amend KRS 189.990 to reclassify a second offense of disregarding a traffic regulation from a Class B misdemeanor to a violation, and misuse of an off-road vehicle from a Class A misdemeanor to a violation; amend KRS 304.99-060 to reclassify the first and second offenses of driving without and failing to maintain proper security from Class B and A misdemeanors to violations; amend KRS 138.465 to conform; amend KRS 194A.990, 205.8461, 205.8463, 217.181, 238.995, 304.47-020, 341.990, 365.241, 434.650, 434.655, 434.660, 434.670, 434.690, 434.850, 434.851, 434.853, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, 514.110, 514.120, 516.120, and 517.060 to increase the felony threshold for offenses from $500 to $2,000 and create a Class B misdemeanor level for offenses of $100 or less; amend KRS 218A.1415 to reclassify first degree possession of a controlled substance from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor for first and second offenses, require probation to be imposed for the offense unless the defendant has been convicted of certain violent or sexual offenses within the last five years, and allow the court to order a substance abuse assessment and treatment referral based on the recommendation of the treatment or service provider; amend KRS 218A.1416 to reclassify the penalty for second degree possession of a controlled substance from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.14151 to revise findings to be made by the prosecutor if entry into a deferred prosecution program is denied and to require the prosecutor to state reasons for the requirement of a criminal conviction; amend KRS 511.040 to exclude motor vehicles, with the exception of recreational vehicles, from the definition of “building” for the purposes of third degree burglary; amend KRS 439.250 to revise definition of parole compliance credits and establish definitions for probation compliance credits, technical violations, and absconding; amend KRS 446.010 to revise definitions for pretrial risk assessment, supervised individual, and treatment; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish an administrative parole process that allows inmates serving a sentence for a Class C or D felony offense that is not a violent or sexual offense to be released at the parole eligibility date without a hearing if the inmate does not commit a serious disciplinary violation, unless the victim or Commonwealth’s attorney requests a hearing; amend KRS 439.340 and 439.3406 to conform; amend KRS 439.553 to require graduated sanctions to be used in response to technical violations and absconding violations; amend KRS 532.260 to allow inmates with 12 months or less to serve on their sentence to be eligible for home incarceration, require a risk and needs assessment to be conducted for offenders placed on home incarceration, and allow graduated sanctions to be used in response to technical violations committed while on home incarceration; amend KRS 439.3107 to require the Department of Corrections to adopt a system of graduated sanctions for absconding violations; amend KRS 439.3108 to require graduated sanctions to be used for the first absconding violation unless the parole officer determines the individual has committed new criminal activity during the absconding period or the individual is on supervision for a sexual or violent offense; allow the Department of Corrections to use graduated sanctions for the second and subsequent absconding violation; amend KRS 439.341 to require preliminary hearings for supervised individuals who have been detained for a technical violation to be conducted within 15 days of detainment; require a show cause hearing to be held to extend the period of detainment beyond the 15 days, otherwise the supervised individual will be released and continued on supervision; prohibit the period of detainment pending final revocation hearing to exceed the length of the revocation limitations established in KRS 439.430 or 533.050; amend KRS 439.315 to require fees to be waived for individuals placed on administrative supervision; require fees to be suspended for the first six months of a person’s term of community supervision following release from custody, unless the releasing authority determines the individual has an ability to pay; clarify that nonpayment of fines, fees, and court courts must be willful in order to be considered a technical violation and grounds for revocation; amend KRS 439.430 to allow a summons to be issued in lieu of a warrant for a technical violation; require a preliminary hearing and revocation hearing to be conducted before a parole can be revoked; require the final revocation hearing to be conducted within 30 business days of the date of the preliminary hearing; limit the term of imprisonment that can be imposed for a technical violation to up to 30 days for the first revocation, up to 90 days for the second revocation, up to 180 days for the third revocation, and up to two years for the fourth and subsequent revocation; repeal KRS 439.440; amend KRS 533.020 to reduce the maximum probation period that can be ordered from five years to four years and make conforming amendments; amend KRS 533.050 to require a final revocation hearing to be held within 30 business days of the preliminary hearing; prohibit individuals detained pending a final revocation hearing from being held beyond the maximum time that can be revoked for a technical violation; limit the term of imprisonment that can be imposed for a technical violation to up to 30 days for the first revocation, up to 90 days for the second revocation, up to 180 days for the third revocation, and up to two years for the fourth and subsequent revocation; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish probation credits; amend KRS 439.345 to remove the requirement that a parolee serve one or two years on supervision before being eligible for certain credits and incentives and add a conforming amendment; amend KRS 441.127 to expand credits available to misdemeanors; amend KRS 439.3105 to expand eligibility for administrative supervision to allow individuals with remaining financial obligations to be placed on administrative supervision, and require individuals who are low-risk and served six months on active supervision without a violation of the terms and conditions of supervision to be placed on administrative supervision; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish a geriatric parole review process that allows inmates convicted of a nonviolent and nonsex offense who have reached the age of 65 years and served at least fifteen percent of their sentence to be considered for parole release by the board; amend KRS 439.3405 to expand eligibility for medical parole to inmates who have a physical or mental disability that renders them incapable of being a danger to society and requires the Parole Board to notify inmates in writing when a medical parole consideration has been denied; amend KRS 534.020 to require an installment plan set up for repayment of court costs and fees to be determined based on defendant’s discretionary income; allow installment plans to be extended to the defendant’s term of supervision; allow community service to be used in lieu of revocation for nonpayment of financial obligations; amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of monetary bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventative detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventative detention hearing process and define the limited circumstances in which monetary bail can be imposed; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021; amend KRS 15.718 to require training for prosecutors related to victims’ statutory rights, including but not limited to the use of victim impact statements at sentencing; amend KRS 21A.170 to require training for judges related to victims’ statutory rights, including but not limited to the use of victim impact statements at sentencing; amend KRS 421.570 to require training for victim advocates related to victims’ statutory rights, including but not limited to the use of victim impact statements and the submission of claims through the Kentucky Claims Commission; amend KRS 15A.075 to expand duties and responsibilities of the Criminal Justice Council to include tracking the implementation of this Act; amend KRS 196.031 to expand duties and responsibilities of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to collect and maintain data related to the implementation of this Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 196 to create a fiscal incentive grant fund and a fiscal incentive grant program; provide a sunset provision for the fund and program; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE in part January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB396/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB396.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1093980,"bill_number":"SB171","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073 to allow discretionary expungement of certain Class D felonies with a ten-year or twenty-year waiting period; distribute $50 of each filing fee to the Kentucky State Police; distribute $100 of each filing fee to the Commonwealth's attorney's office that prosecuted the case; amend KRS 431.076 to allow a person against whom charges have been dismissed with or without prejudice to petition for expungement; set time limits for filing petitions; amend KRS 431.079 to require a certificate of eligibility only if a petition or application seeks expungement of a conviction; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB171/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB171.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1093983,"bill_number":"SR211","title":"Recognize September of 2018 Sepsis Awareness Month.","description":"Recognize September of 2018 Sepsis Awareness Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR211/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR211.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1093986,"bill_number":"HR177","title":"Designate the first week of December 2018 as Cancer Screen Week.","description":"Designate the first week of December 2018 as Cancer Screen Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR177/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR177.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1093988,"bill_number":"SB168","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 158.105 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB168/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB168.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1093992,"bill_number":"HB403","title":"AN ACT relating to electric service.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define \"single-family farm\" and direct retail electric suppliers to charge no more than residential rates for service provided to single-family farms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB403/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB403.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1093995,"bill_number":"HB412","title":"AN ACT relating to lost or stolen firearms.","description":"Create a new section of Chapter 237 to mandate reporting of lost or stolen firearms within 72 hours of the time a person knew or should have known the firearm was missing; require certain information about the firearm to be furnished to the Department of Kentucky State Police; instruct the department to create a system for sharing the collected information about lost or stolen firearms; set penalties for failure to report; amend KRS 237.110 to disqualify people with a third violation for failing to report from holding a carry concealed deadly weapons license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB412/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB412.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1093997,"bill_number":"HR174","title":"Urge the Governor to exempt Family Resource and Youth Services Centers from budget cuts through fiscal year 2019-2020.","description":"Urge the Governor to exempt Family Resource and Youth Services Centers from budget cuts through fiscal year 2019-2020.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR174/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR174.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1094001,"bill_number":"SR209","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patricia Carol Stratton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patricia Carol Stratton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR209/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR209.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1094003,"bill_number":"SB169","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.392 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB169/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB169.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1094007,"bill_number":"SB181","title":"AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants.","description":"Amend KRS 17.500 to revise the definition of \"criminal offense against a victim who is a minor\" and \"registrant information\"; amend KRS 17.510 to require registrants to provide palm prints, motor vehicle operator's license numbers, government issued identification card numbers, and home and cellular telephone numbers; require registrants to inform the appropriate local probation and parole office of travel outside the country; amend 17.520 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 17.580 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 121)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB181/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB181.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1094010,"bill_number":"HR175","title":"Honor the West Jessamine High School girls' soccer team upon winning the 2017 KHSAA State Championship.","description":"Honor the West Jessamine High School girls' soccer team upon winning the 2017 KHSAA State Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR175/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR175.htm","sponsor":"Russ Meyer"},
{"bill_id":1094013,"bill_number":"SB180","title":"AN ACT relating to an earned income tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 and amend KRS 141.0205 to establish a refundable earned income tax credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB180/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB180.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1094016,"bill_number":"SB167","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 227.250 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB167/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB167.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1094018,"bill_number":"HB400","title":"AN ACT relating to direct shipment of alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 243.0305 to allow distilleries to ship product and monthly club membership orders directly to consumers and set delivery requirements; amend KRS 243.120 to add package sales for distilleries; amend KRS 243.120 and 243.130 to recognize the three-tier system; amend KRS 243.155 to allow small farm wineries to ship product and monthly club membership orders directly to consumers and set delivery requirements; amend KRS 243.200 to allow transporters to ship directly to consumers and set requirements for shipping packages; amend KRS 243.240 to allow quota retail package license holders to ship directly to consumers and set delivery requirements; amend KRS 244.165 to set requirements for delivery of alcoholic beverages purchased out-of-state to consumers in Kentucky; amend KRS 244.240 to conform; amend KRS 242.260 and 242.270 to limit delivery liability of common carrier and add defense to shipping into dry territory; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 164)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB400/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB400.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1094021,"bill_number":"SB170","title":"AN ACT relating to Lyme disease.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require health care providers to provide anyone tested for Lyme disease with the detailed results of the test and written information on the effectiveness of the test for Lyme disease.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"recommitted to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB170/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB170.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1094025,"bill_number":"SB179","title":"AN ACT relating to corrections.","description":"Amend KRS 196.731 to specify that calculations and reports are to be quarterly; amend KRS 196.732 to require deposits to be made quarterly; amend KRS 196.736 to conform; amend KRS 532.100 to grant accredited jail facilities priority in the receipt of state prisoners subject to jail detention.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB179/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB179.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1094026,"bill_number":"HB390","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development incentives.","description":"Amend KRS 154.32.010 to define \"weekly minimum wage\"; amend KRS 154.32-020 to require an approved company to pay all new full-time employees whose jobs were created as a result of the economic development project no less than the minimum weekly wage and provide employee benefits for those jobs equal to at least 15% of the minimum weekly wage established by the agreement; amend KRS 154.32-030 to delete all provisions that allow the approved company to receive full incentives if 90% of the job and wage requirements are met upon activation or annual review; amend KRS 154.32-040 to delete a provision that would allow the approved company to receive a reduction in tax incentives for failing to meet job and wage requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB390/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB390.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1094030,"bill_number":"SB178","title":"AN ACT relating to health education.","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; permit a parent or guardian to 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 or public school to offer human sexuality education.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB178/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB178.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1094035,"bill_number":"HB391","title":"AN ACT relating to inheritance.","description":"Amend KRS 391.010 to move the surviving spouse first in line for inheritance of an intestate estate; apportion the surviving spouse's share of the estate depending on other surviving descendants.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB391/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB391.htm","sponsor":"Larry Brown"},
{"bill_id":1094036,"bill_number":"SR213","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Katherine Smith Monthie.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Katherine Smith Monthie.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR213/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR213.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1094040,"bill_number":"HB401","title":"AN ACT relating to electric utility rates and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to authorize the Kentucky Public Service Commission to consider rates of utilities with economically distressed counties in their service territory; amend KRS 278. 030 to require the commission to consider whether an increase in rates will have an adverse impact on the citizens of economically distressed counties and cap the rate of return on investment at six percent (6%); amend KRS 278.180 to provide that within six (6) months of a rate increase, ratepayers may petition the commission for a rehearing of the rate increase; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB401/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB401.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1094043,"bill_number":"HB411","title":"AN ACT relating to the destruction of firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 500.090 to require that confiscated firearms be kept for official use or destroyed rather than auctioned; amend KRS 237.090 to comply; amend KRS 150.120 to require Fish & Wildlife to keep confiscated firearms for official use or destroy them, rather than selling the firearms; amend KRS 95.435, 147A.002, 244.190, 376.275 to conform; repeal KRS 16.220 and 500.093 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB411/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB411.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1094045,"bill_number":"SB173","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 felonies designated by the General Assembly, the right to vote; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB173/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB173.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094048,"bill_number":"SB175","title":"AN ACT relating to juries.","description":"Amend KRS 29A.040 to add holders of personal identification cards issued within a county to the master list of potential jurors for that county.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB175/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB175.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094052,"bill_number":"HB394","title":"AN ACT relating to abandoned property.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 393A and create new sections thereof to enact the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 2016; amend KRS 41.360, 164A.701, 164A.707, 304.15-420, 393.170, and 393.250 to conform; repeal KRS 393.010, 393.060, 393.062, 393.064, 393.066, 393.072, 393.090, 393.095, 393.100, 393.110, 393.115, 393.120, 393.125, 393.130, 393.140, 393.150, 393.160, 393.180, 393.190, 393.210, 393.220, 393.230, 393.240, 393.260, 393.270, 393.280, 393.290, and 393.990; require the State Treasurer to submit a report on the status of the abandoned property fund to the Legislative Research Commission by December 15, 2018.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 163)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB394/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB394.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1094054,"bill_number":"HB398","title":"AN ACT relating to physical therapist licensure and declaring an emergency.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 327.310, relating to physical therapist licensure, to make the applicant criminal background check consistent with state and federal standards; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 97)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB398/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB398.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1094057,"bill_number":"HR176","title":"Urge the board of education or board of trustees of a school to allow teachers and other school personnel to carry firearms for their own protection.","description":"Urge the board of education or board of trustees of a school to allow teachers and other school personnel to carry firearms for their own protection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR176/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR176.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1094061,"bill_number":"HB409","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and firearms accessories and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit the sale or transfer of bump stock devices, trigger cranks and other items designed to accelerate the rate of fire without turning a firearm into a fully automatic firearm; create penalties; provide for the destruction of the items after a conviction and any appeals. EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB409/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB409.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1094064,"bill_number":"HB410","title":"AN ACT relating to a firearms offense registry.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to create a publicly accessible database of offenders with convictions for deadly weapons offenses; create definitions; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to establish and maintain the registry; require initial registration for certain offenders and require state and local programs and agencies to assist some offenders in registering; specify data to be collected and shared; require annual updates or whenever there is a change in the offender's registry information; establish five-year limit on registry; create Class B misdemeanor for knowingly violating registry provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB410/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB410.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1094066,"bill_number":"SB176","title":"AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government in regards to home rule powers and planning and zoning.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB176/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB176.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1094069,"bill_number":"HB395","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency air ambulance coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define balance bill and insured; create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define registered air ambulance service provider, to prohibit a health benefit plan from using an allowed amount for air ambulance services under certain conditions, to determine when an air ambulance transport is medically necessary, to require assumption of charges by the insurer under certain conditions, to require notification to the air ambulance service of assumption by the insurer, prohibit the air ambulance provider from certain actions following receipt of notification, to establish payment requirements for the insurer, to establish the Independent Dispute Resolution program for disputed air ambulance service charges within the Department of Insurance, to require reporting by registered air ambulance service providers and the department, to set requirements for registration in the program, to set requirements to be an independent reviewer for the program, and to establish procedures for the Independent Dispute Resolution program; and amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB395/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB395.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1094073,"bill_number":"SB166","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting, which shall be composed of state university faculty appointed by presidents of Kentucky's state universities; require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to develop redistricting plans for state legislative and United States congressional districts; 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; provide that if the General Assembly does not enact the plans, the plans shall 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":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB166/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB166.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1094075,"bill_number":"HB408","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow partially disabled veterans a","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB408/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB408.htm","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1094078,"bill_number":"SR210","title":"Honor Hannah Huffaker upon receiving a 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Award.","description":"Honor Hannah Huffaker upon receiving a 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR210/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR210.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1094081,"bill_number":"HB397","title":"AN ACT relating to female genital mutilation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create a Class A felony relating to female genital mutilation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop, produce, and disseminate education materials related to female genital mutilation; amend KRS 620.030 establishing that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is a victim of female genital mutilation, then that person shall immediately make an oral or written report to the appropriate authorities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB397/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB397.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1094084,"bill_number":"SB177","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 635.060 to allow probation to extend to the completion of substance abuse or mental health treatment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB177/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB177.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1094086,"bill_number":"SB174","title":"AN ACT relating to juries.","description":"Amend KRS 15.733 to allow the disqualification of a prosecuting attorney from the retrial of a case due to discriminatory jury selection practices; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and report data on the race, ethnicity, and sex of members of juries.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB174/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB174.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094090,"bill_number":"SCR215","title":"Recognize the need to lower the rate of cesarean delivery in the Commonwealth.","description":"Recognize the need to lower the rate of cesarean delivery in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR215/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SCR215.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1094091,"bill_number":"HB406","title":"AN ACT relating to employer funding for the County Employees Retirement System and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.565 to establish a phase-in of the actuarially required employer contributions to the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) so that by July 1, 2024, the full actuarially required contribution rate is paid; provide that the maximum annual increase in projected dollars paid shall not exceed 10% of the value from the prior fiscal year through June 30, 2023, provide that rates payable by CERS employers from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2023; shall be based upon the assumptions established in the 2017 actuarial valuation; require the systems' board of trustees to amend employer rates payable on or after July 1, 2018, accordingly; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB406/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB406.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1094094,"bill_number":"SR212","title":"Honor Sisters of Loretto and their work in Ghana.","description":"Honor Sisters of Loretto and their work in Ghana.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR212/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR212.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1094097,"bill_number":"HB402","title":"AN ACT relating to credit balances for insurers.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.0804 to provide a schedule for distribution of refunds for overpaid local government insurance premiums tax to insurance companies; amend KRS 91A.0802 to add a definition.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 182)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB402/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB402.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1094100,"bill_number":"HB405","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB405/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB405.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1094102,"bill_number":"HB393","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of minimum wages by local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow local governments to pass an ordinance setting employees' minimum wages at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB393/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB393.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1094106,"bill_number":"HB399","title":"AN ACT relating to the acquisition of water or sewer utilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to set forth procedures for the valuation of assets and rate base calculations relating to the acquisition of existing water or sewer utilities by investor-owned water or sewer utilities; define terms; require the Public Service Commission to include in the acquiring utility's next base rate case the entire value of all assets acquired as a measure by the fair market value on the date of acquisition or purchase price paid, whichever is less; require the acquiring utility to pay for three appraisals, the average of which shall determine the fair market value; require one appraiser to be chosen by the acquiring utility, one to be chosen by the utility to be acquired, and one to be chosen by mutual agreement of the first two appraisers; require that the appraisers be properly qualified, not have any interest in the transaction, and not be a resident or taxpayer of the service area of the utility being acquired; require the appraisers to separately determine the fair market value of the assets in compliance with the latest version of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice; require that the appraisal include the value of all assets to be acquired regardless of source or original price; require that the acquisition agreement provide for the repayment of any debt owed on the acquired assets by the utility being acquired to any person or government entity.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-20","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB399/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB399.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1094651,"bill_number":"SB182","title":"AN ACT relating to all-terrain vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.515 to define federal all-terrain vehicle standards; set forth age restrictions for all-terrain vehicle use; restrict the carrying of passengers on all-terrain vehicles; require all-terrain vehicles be operated in accordance with federal all-terrain vehicle standards; set forth that it shall be unlawful to remove the manufacturer age restriction warning label from an all-terrain vehicle.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 64)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB182/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB182.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1094656,"bill_number":"HCR180","title":"Urge the United States Department of Transportation to increase the distance for the transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies for agricultural purposes from a 150 air-mile radius to a 200 air-mile radius.","description":"Urge the United States Department of Transportation to increase the distance for the transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies for agricultural purposes from a 150 air-mile radius to a 200 air-mile radius.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR180/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR180.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1094664,"bill_number":"HB416","title":"AN ACT relating to quota licenses for alcohol, making an appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 243.884 to change wholesale tax rate; amend KRS 243.157 to conform; amend KRS 241.065 to conform with population data; create new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet counties; create new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet cities; create new section of KRS Chapter 241 to specify department process for verifying quota numbers; create new section of KRS Chapter 241 to allow a city to petition for a quota increase and establish criteria for board to consider; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to outline petition requirements, create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to notify quota license holders that quotas may be increased; repeal KRS 243.886. APPROPRIATION. EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB416/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB416.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1094672,"bill_number":"HR178","title":"Honor JoEllen Mitchell.","description":"Honor JoEllen Mitchell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR178/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR178.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1094680,"bill_number":"HB420","title":"AN ACT relating to constables.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 70 detailing the powers and duties of constables, excluding the general powers of peace or police officers, with certain exceptions; allow police powers where the county grants them and the constable or deputy have been certified pursuant to KRS 15.380 to 15.404, so long as that certification is maintained; amend KRS 15.707 deleting constables; amend KRS 16.060 deleting constables; amend KRS 61.300 deleting deputy constables; amend KRS 61.310 deleting deputy constables; amend KRS 63.170 by adding constables; amend KRS 63.180 by adding deputy constables; amend KRS 64.060 to remove non-certified constables from the fee schedule for services and allow certified constables to continue to receive fees per the schedule; amend KRS 64.190 to amend constable fee schedule; amend KRS 64.200 to exclude urban county governments from constable compensation requirements and include deputy constables within reporting requirements; amend KRS 70.310 to require deputy constables to execute bond; amend KRS 70.320 to allow the appointment of deputy constables, specify how they are appointed and their numbers determined, and qualifications of; amend KRS 70.350 to clarify where constables may execute warrants; amend KRS 70.410 to include deputy constables; amend KRS 70.430 to clarify the nature and recipient of constable and deputy constable's reports; grant fiscal courts or county clerks and merged governments the authority to retain 25% of fees collected; amend KRS 70.440 to include mandated reports within false reporting prohibitions; amend KRS 148.056 to remove constables; amend KRS 150.100 to remove constables; amend KRS 164.955 to specify that powers of constables are not being diluted or removed; amend KRS 183.881 to clarify that constable powers are not impaired or diminished; amend KRS 189.950 to permit vehicle blue lights for constables if the county grants them the authority and if they are certified as peace officers; amend KRS 230.240 to remove constables; amend KRS 277.280 to remove constables; amend KRS 281.765 to remove constables and deputies; amend KRS 446.010 to remove constables from definition of \"peace officers\"; amend KRS 454.140 to direct service of process to sheriffs, excluding urban-county and consolidated local governments, unless they pass an ordinance granting the sheriff priority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB420/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB420.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1094688,"bill_number":"SB184","title":"AN ACT relating to firearm storage.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB184/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB184.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094696,"bill_number":"HB417","title":"AN ACT relating to the creation of an animal abuse registry and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the animal abuse offender registry; requires the Kentucky State Police to maintain a registry of offenders who commit an animal abuse offense; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the animal abuse offender registry fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB417/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB417.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1094705,"bill_number":"HB432","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development oversight and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Economic Development Incentive Review Board; define relevant terms; describe board membership; describe board procedures; describe board's authority; outline board responsibilities; grant power to collect data from state agencies; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB432/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB432.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1094712,"bill_number":"HB422","title":"AN ACT relating to school based decision making councils.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to include a student representative to serve on the school-based decision making council in high schools; specify that the student cannot be an employee or relative of an employee of the high school or district administrative office; provide that the student term is for one year and the student representative shall serve in a nonvoting advisory roll; specify that the student representative will not participate in hiring.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB422/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB422.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1094723,"bill_number":"HB427","title":"AN ACT relating to nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.011 to eliminate reference to the Controlled Substance Formulary Development Committee and to change the term \"noncontrolled\" to \"nonscheduled;\" amend KRS 314.031 to reference the disciplinary statute and to eliminate the list of reportable offenses; amend KRS 314.035 to establish a mandatory reporting requirement for anyone who has knowledge of a potential violation by a dialysis technician; amend KRS 314.042 to update language concerning the definition of an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), require an applicant for an APRN license to take a jurisprudence examination; simplify reporting of the rescission of a CAPA-NS or CS; amend KRS 314.085 to clarify that evaluations must be submitted within 30 days; amend KRS 314.089 to clarify when an immediate suspension of a license is warranted; amend KRS 314.091 to add use or possession of a Schedule I controlled substance and use or impairment by use of alcohol or drugs to the list of violations; amend 314.101 to clarify when a nurse that is temporarily in the state does not need a license; amend KRS 314.181 to clarify when a registered nurse may pronounce the death of a patient; amend KRS 314.111 to allow the Board of Nursing to fine a program of nursing that is not in compliance with regulations; amend KRS 311A.185 to conform; repeal KRS 314.046 and 314.105.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 183)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB427/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB427.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1094730,"bill_number":"HB429","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 to add a Division of Education to the Office of Adult Institutions in the Department of Corrections; confirm Executive Order 2017-268, dated May 1, 2017.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 184)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB429/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB429.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1094738,"bill_number":"SB187","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 635.060 to clarify placement of a person committed after the age of seventeen and a half.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB187/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB187.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1094746,"bill_number":"HB425","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable gaming.","description":"Amend KRS 238.545 to remove some of the restrictions on the frequency with which charity fundraising events may be held at unlicensed facilities.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB425/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB425.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1094754,"bill_number":"HB415","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 635.010 to allow filing a complaint against a minor charged with a violation of KRS 635.010.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB415/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB415.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1094763,"bill_number":"HB413","title":"AN ACT relating to resources for local development and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.400 to define \"base restaurant tax receipts\" and \"merged governments\"; grant any city or merged government the right to levy a restaurant tax, subject to certain limitations; allow cities and merged governments levying a restaurant tax after the effective date to distribute at least 25% of revenues generated to the tourist and convention commission, the remainder to be used to create or support infrastructure supporting tourism; make provisions for cities that levied the restaurant tax prior to the effective date to distribute restaurant tax revenues; establish passage and accounting procedures for the levying of the restaurant tax; deal with surpluses; permit uses of unexpended funds; prohibit the subsidy of any private concern; create an offset for restaurants that have both a city and a merged government levying the tax; exempt restaurants subject to the tax from certain local occupational license taxes; mandate that any new tax or rate take effect at the beginning of any calendar month; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB413/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB413.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1094770,"bill_number":"HR179","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sharon Kay Thompson Gustafson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sharon Kay Thompson Gustafson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR179/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR179.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1094779,"bill_number":"SB190","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation,\" \"gender identity,\" \" local Commission,\" and \" real estate-related transaction\"; 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 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; make various technical amendments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB190/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB190.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1094788,"bill_number":"HB418","title":"AN ACT relating to internet service providers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A requiring broadband Internet access service providers doing business with the Commonwealth under the Kentucky Model Procurement Act to adhere to certain network management practices; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367, Fair Access to the Internet Act, to protect consumers from broadband Internet access service providers who fail to adhere to reasonable network management practices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB418/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB418.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1094797,"bill_number":"SB188","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 190.990 to remove duplicative language regarding penalties for fraudulent activities concerning motor vehicle sales.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB188/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB188.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1094805,"bill_number":"HB431","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 15A.020 to reorganize the Department of Juvenile Justice into offices and divisions; confirm Executive Order 2017-599, dated September 1, 2017.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 192)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB431/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB431.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1094813,"bill_number":"SB189","title":"AN ACT relating to juror pay.","description":"Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase juror pay and expense allowance; amend KRS 32.011 to conform to repeal; repeal KRS 32.070, relating to expense allowances for jurors.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB189/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB189.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094823,"bill_number":"HB424","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky 911 Services Board.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7623 to reconstitute the Kentucky 911 Services Board; establish means and terms of service on board; provide for an administrative relationship with the Office of Homeland Security; exempt the board from the provisions of KRS 12.028; amend KRS 65.7625 to delineate the financial responsibilities of the board and the Office of Homeland Security.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 138)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB424/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB424.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1094831,"bill_number":"SR217","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth \"Betty\" Lou LaMont Tullar.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth \"Betty\" Lou LaMont Tullar.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR217/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR217.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1094840,"bill_number":"HB426","title":"AN ACT relating to school counselors.","description":"Amend KRS 151B.133, 156.101, 158.070, 158.148, 158.160, 161.165, 161.195, 161.720, 319.015, and 620.146 to change guidance counselor to school counselor; direct the Education Professional Standards Board to refer to guidance counselors as school counselors.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB426/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB426.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1094848,"bill_number":"SR216","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Foster William \"Bill\" Swope.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Foster William \"Bill\" Swope.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR216/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR216.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1094857,"bill_number":"HB423","title":"AN ACT relating to the Family in Recovery Empowerment Public and Private Partnership Grant Program and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to define terms; require the Office of Drug Control Policy to establish the Family in Recovery Empowerment Public and Private Partnership Grant Program; set criteria for awarding grants; require the office to develop a plan to expend trust funds; require a report from the officel; require the office to establish the grant program; establish the Family in Recovery Empowerment Public and Private Partnership Grant Program trust fund; require the office to assist in establishing four model programs through the grant program during the 2018-2020 fiscal biennium in regions most affected by substance use disorders; provide that the grant program shall cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reauthorized by the General Assembly; require any moneys remaining in the trust fund to be deposited in the general fund if the program and advisory council cease to exist; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB423/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB423.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1094866,"bill_number":"HB430","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 to add the Division of Reentry to the Office of Community Services and Facilities in the Department of Corrections; confirm Executive Order 2017-749, dated October 31, 2017.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 191)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB430/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB430.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1094873,"bill_number":"HB421","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of bicycle use on bridges.","description":"Amend KRS 189.287 to give the Transportation Cabinet the authority to regulate bicycle traffic on the sidewalks of state-maintained bridges.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB421/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB421.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":1094883,"bill_number":"SR219","title":"Honoring Dr. Jim W. Evans, Jr., upon being named the 2018 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year.","description":"Honoring Dr. Jim W. Evans, Jr., upon being named the 2018 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR219/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR219.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1094891,"bill_number":"HB419","title":"AN ACT relating to sharks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to prohibit the sale, trade, distribution, or possession of shark fins.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB419/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB419.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1094899,"bill_number":"HR181","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lloyd Cress.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lloyd Cress.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR181/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR181.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1094907,"bill_number":"HR182","title":"Designate Radcliff, Kentucky, as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","description":"Designate Radcliff, Kentucky, as the \"Knife Capital of Kentucky.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR182/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR182.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1094915,"bill_number":"SR220","title":"Honor Rachael Denhollander.","description":"Honor Rachael Denhollander.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR220/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR220.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1094926,"bill_number":"HB428","title":"AN ACT relating to opioid overdose.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to provide for an opioid assessment detention at an appropriate medical facility when a person has had an opioid overdose and been treated with naloxone or another opioid overdose intervention drug.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB428/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB428.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1094932,"bill_number":"SB185","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional criminal offenses eligible for expungement; reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions which have not been pardoned.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB185/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB185.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1094941,"bill_number":"HB414","title":"AN ACT relating to information technology.","description":"Amend KRS 154.15-010 to create a definition for paid prioritization; create a new section of Subchapter 15 of KRS Chapter 154 to require KentuckyWired contracts between the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and public or private Internet service providers contain certain provisions to ensure open and fair access to the network by customers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"reassigned to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB414/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB414.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1094949,"bill_number":"SB186","title":"AN ACT relating to libraries.","description":"Amend KRS 171.420 to rename the State Archives and Records Commission the State Libraries, Archives, and Records Commission; revise the membership of the commission; designate the commission as the state advisory council on libraries; expand the duties of the commission to include advising the Department for Libraries and Archives on matters relating to library funding, standards, development, and service issues; repeal KRS 173.810 which creates the State Advisory Council on Libraries; provide that the terms of the Kentucky State Advisory Council membership shall expire on the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB186/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB186.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1094957,"bill_number":"SB191","title":"AN ACT relating to public finance.","description":"Amend KRS 58.190 to apply the statute of limitations for challenging an action by a governmental agency adopting a lease to be the same 30-day period for challenging any ordinance or resolution; amend KRS 65.942 to conform; amend KRS 58.040 to allow notices of competitive bond sales to be posted in an electronic bidding system as an alternative advertising method; amend KRS 103.200 to include within the definition of industrial building any use by an entity recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as an organization described in 26 U.S.C. sec. 501(c)(3) in any manner related to or in the furtherance of that entity's exempt purposes; amend KRS 103.2101 to conform notice date and extend the maximum length of any bond authorization to 40 years; amend KRS 424.130 to clarify that failure to properly publish a notice of adoption of an ordinance or resolution will not void the adoption unless the failure continues for a period of 15 days; amend KRS 66.310 to conform the notice date for a hearing; amend KRS 66.400 to clarify that a general obligation pledge is a pledge of taxes, to limit garnishment of public funds, and allow for periodic payment of judgments in the case of bankruptcy;","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB191/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB191.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1094965,"bill_number":"SB183","title":"AN ACT relating to cosmetic services.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.010 the define \"beauty salon\" and \"nail salon\" as either a fixed or mobile establishment; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the Cosmetologist Board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish inspection criteria for mobile salons; amend KRS 317A.155 to allow licensees to render services outside of a licensed establishment for persons suffering from a medical condition which limits physical mobility as attested by a physician in writing.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB183/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB183.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1094972,"bill_number":"SJR218","title":"Direct state agencies to conduct self-studies to examine practices that contribute to food waste and identify new practices that would reduce food waste and increase food donations to charitable feeding agencies; direct each agency to submit a written report of its findings to the IJC on Agriculture; direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet to develop food waste reduction guidelines to be used by all state agencies and to present those guidelines to the IJC on Agriculture.","description":"Direct state agencies to conduct self-studies to examine practices that contribute to food waste and identify new practices that would reduce food waste and increase food donations to charitable feeding agencies; direct each agency to submit a written report of its findings to the IJC on Agriculture; direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet to develop food waste reduction guidelines to be used by all state agencies and to present those guidelines to the IJC on Agriculture.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 32)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR218/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR218.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1094980,"bill_number":"HJR183","title":"Direct the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to direct all available veterans' center beds, as they become available, toward a veteran nursing home in Magoffin County, Kentucky.","description":"Direct the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to direct all available veterans' center beds, as they become available, toward a veteran nursing home in Magoffin County, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-21","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR183/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR183.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1095522,"bill_number":"HB452","title":"AN ACT relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.040, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB452/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB452.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1095525,"bill_number":"HB451","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rural Rehabilitation Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to make a gender-neutral reference.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB451/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB451.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1095529,"bill_number":"HB441","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 15.010, relating to the Office of the Attorney General, to rename and restructure units within the office; amend various statutes to conform and make technical corrections; confirm the Attorney General's Executive Order, OAG EO17-01.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB441/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB441.htm","sponsor":"Rick Rand"},
{"bill_id":1095532,"bill_number":"SR223","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David \"Dave\" Gary Johnson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David \"Dave\" Gary Johnson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR223/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR223.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1095535,"bill_number":"SR222","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clara \"Claire\" Ramona Webb Dukes.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clara \"Claire\" Ramona Webb Dukes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR222/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR222.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1095540,"bill_number":"HB454","title":"AN ACT relating to the human rights of unborn children and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to prohibit an abortion on a pregnant woman that will result in the bodily dismemberment, crushing, or human vivisection of the unborn child when the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 11 weeks or greater, except in the case of a medical emergency; amend KRS 311.990 to provide that a person who violates the prohibition is guilty of a Class D felony; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 142)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB454/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB454.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1095542,"bill_number":"HR186","title":"Adjourn in honor of Thelma King Ripperdan's 99th birthday.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Thelma King Ripperdan's 99th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR186/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR186.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1095546,"bill_number":"HB433","title":"AN ACT relating to gambling.","description":"Amend KRS 528.010 to define poker and blackjack as games of skill and stipulate that they are not gambling.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB433/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB433.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1095549,"bill_number":"HB440","title":"AN ACT relating to eliminating retirement benefits for legislators taking office on or after January 1, 2019.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective January 1, 2019; amend KRS 61.525 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 members of the General Assembly prior to January 1, 2019; amend KRS 61.510, 61.520, and 61.525 to make technical and conforming amendments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB440/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB440.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1095553,"bill_number":"SB196","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act.","description":"Create KRS Chapter 382A and various sections thereof to enact the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB196/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB196.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1095556,"bill_number":"HB455","title":"AN ACT to prohibit abortion if the unborn has or may have Down syndrome and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit an abortion if the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion, in whole or in part, because of a test result indicating Down syndrome in an unborn child, a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome in an unborn child, or any other reason to believe that the child has Down syndrome, except in the case of a medical emergency; require physicians to certify a lack of knowledge that the pregnant' s woman intent to seek an abortion was, in whole or in part, because of a test result indicating Down syndrome, a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or any other reason to believe the unborn child had Down syndrome; require the State Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a physician's license to practice medicine if the physician violates the prohibition; provide that a physician who violates the prohibition is civilly liable; allow for severability; amend KRS 311.595 to allow the State Board of Medical Licensure to suspend or revoke the license of any physician who violates the prohibition; amend KRS 311.990 to provide that a person who violates the prohibition is guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 213.101 to conform; amend KRS 413.140 to provide a one-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising from a violation of the prohibition; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB455/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB455.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1095560,"bill_number":"HB444","title":"AN ACT relating to health facilities and services.","description":"Amend KRS 216.2927 to update data collection; amend KRS 216.380 to remove \"primary care centers\" and \"rural health clinics\" from the list of facilities that may be designated as a \"critical access hospital\"; amend KRS 216.510 and 216.535 to revise the definition of \"long-term care facilities\"; amend KRS 216.545 to remove outdated language; amend KRS 216.563 to remove outdated language and to remove the requirement that criteria for \"Type A\" and \"Type B\" long-term care facility violations be reviewed at least quarterly; amend KRS 216.577 to replace reference to the \"Kentucky Health Facility and Health Service Certificate of Need and Licensure Board\" with the \"Cabinet for Health and Family Services\"; amend KRS 216B.015 to revise various definitions; amend KRS 216B.020 to exempt certain outpatient health facilities and health services from the certificate of need requirement; amend KRS 216B.035 to permit records to be kept in electronic form; amend KRS 216B.040 to remove the Cabinet's ability to appoint \"technical advisory committees\" to assist in the administration of this chapter; amend KRS 216B.055 and 216B.105 to allow for electronic delivery of notices and licensure decisions; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 216.600, 216.860, 216.865, 216.900, 216.905, 216.910, 216.915, 216.930, 216B.071, 216B.120, 216B.176, and 216B.177.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 143)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB444/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB444.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1095563,"bill_number":"HR184","title":"Honor Commerce Lexington Inc. upon being named the 2016 Chamber of the Year by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.","description":"Honor Commerce Lexington Inc. upon being named the 2016 Chamber of the Year by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR184/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR184.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1095565,"bill_number":"HB434","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust.","description":"Amend KRS 164A.305, relating to the Educational Savings Plan Trust, to define \"educational institution\" and \"qualified educational expenses\" in conformance with Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code; include elementary and secondary schools in the definitions; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; repeal KRS 164A.360.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 137)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB434/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB434.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1095571,"bill_number":"HB445","title":"AN ACT relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.011 to eliminate the Controlled Substance Formulary Development Committee; amend KRS 314.042 to permit advanced practice registered nurses to enter into a collaborative agreement for prescriptive authority for controlled substances with a collaborating advanced practice nurse practitioner or a physician and to permit advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances without a collaborative agreement after four years; amend KRS 314.193 to assign to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Council the responsibility to make recommendations to the Board of Nursing regarding limitations on prescriptions for controlled substances written by advanced practice registered nurses and to review continuing education requirements for controlled substances; amend KRS 314.196 to clarify qualifications for members of the Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee and to clarify the committee's responsibilities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB445/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB445.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1095574,"bill_number":"SR226","title":"Honor the Union County High School wrestling team upon winning the KHSAA State Championship.","description":"Honor the Union County High School wrestling team upon winning the KHSAA State Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR226/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR226.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1095576,"bill_number":"HR185","title":"Recognize March 11, 2018, as Mountain Dulcimer Day in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize March 11, 2018, as Mountain Dulcimer Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR185/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR185.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1095579,"bill_number":"SB194","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 395A and create new sections thereof to enact the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act to establish a framework for the management and disposition of digital assets upon death or incapacitation; define terms; set forth the applicability of the chapter to fiduciaries, agents, personal representatives, conservators, guardians, and trustees; provide that the chapter does not apply to a digital asset of an employer that is used by an employee in the ordinary course of business; enumerate the rights and limitations of a personal representative of a decedent to access the electronic communications or digital assets of the decedent; permit a court to grant a conservator or guardian the right to access electronic communications of a protected person after a hearing conducted pursuant to applicable state law; enumerate the rights and limitations of an agent to access a principal's electronic communications and digital assets; enumerate the rights and limitations of a trustee, or successor of a trustee, to access the electronic communications and digital assets of an account holder or successor account holder; provide that a fiduciary who is an account holder or has the right to access an account holder's digital assets may do so, subject to certain limitations; provide that an account holder may limit a fiduciary’s access to any digital asset by affirmative act, separate from his or her assent to other provisions, in a terms-of-service agreement; specify when a provision in a terms-of-service agreement is void as against public policy of Kentucky; provide that a choice-of-law provision in an agreement is unenforceable to the extent that it limits a fiduciary’s access to a digital asset; allow a fiduciary with authority over the property of a decedent, protected person, principal, or settlor to access tangible property containing digital assets; specify the documents or instruments that a fiduciary must provide to a custodian in order to access, control, or copy a digital asset; provide that a custodian must comply with a request made within 60 days of receipt of the request; require that the provisions of the chapter be applied and construed so as to promote uniformity of law among the states; establish conformity with federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; provide that the chapter may be cited as the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB194/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB194.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1095583,"bill_number":"HB442","title":"AN ACT relating to assault on a service animal.","description":"Amend KRS 525.200 to include assistance animals in the definition of \"service animals\" that are covered by assault on a service animal in the first degree.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB442/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB442.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1095587,"bill_number":"HR188","title":"Recognize Jackson Hall in Frankfort, Kentucky for its importance as the \"Kentucky Museum of African American History\".","description":"Recognize Jackson Hall in Frankfort, Kentucky for its importance as the \"Kentucky Museum of African American History\".","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR188/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR188.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1095590,"bill_number":"HB448","title":"AN ACT relating to reliable energy portfolio standards.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to declare the intent of the Act to be to maintain reliable electricity generation; define \"reliable energy\" to mean electricity generated from a source that is always available on site or is delivered in advance and stored on site with the retail electric supplier and define other terms; require retail electricity suppliers to incrementally increase the percentage of reliable energy that they provide to consumers from 70% in 2020, to 72.5% in 2023, and to 75% in 2026; specify what type of generation may be attributable to compliance with the reliability requirements of the Act; beginning on January 1, 2019, require each retail electric supplier to file a biennial implementation plan with the Public Service Commission; beginning on January 1, 2021, require each retail electric supplier to submit an annual report with the Public Service Commission; require the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the form, submission, and information to be contained in the report; beginning September 1, 2026, require the Public Service Commission to submit a report every five years to the Legislative Research Commission that includes the information gathered from the reports it received from the retail electric suppliers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB448/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB448.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1095599,"bill_number":"SB10","title":"AN ACT relating to judicial redistricting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population and caseload; require the analysis to be completed within two years of December 31 of the year of the decennial census; require the Supreme Court to submit the analysis to the General Assembly by January 31 of the following year; provide that if the analysis indicates a need for rearrangement of judicial circuits and districts or reallocation of the number of judges due to population or caseload, the Supreme Court may submit certification as required by the Constitution of Kentucky which may include a proposal; amend KRS 23A.020 to realign the boundaries of the judicial circuits; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase the allocation of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to six judges and six numbered divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; include noncodified language regarding dates of implementation, the renumbering of certain circuits, and the impact on the office of Commonwealth's attorney in the affected circuits; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB10/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB10.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1095602,"bill_number":"HCR187","title":"Reaffirm the Commonwealth's commitment to maintaining pension benefits for state and local government employees, teachers, and retirees.","description":"Reaffirm the Commonwealth's commitment to maintaining pension benefits for state and local government employees, teachers, and retirees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR187/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR187.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1095607,"bill_number":"HB449","title":"AN ACT relating to sexual harassment policies for state employees.","description":"Amend KRS 7.090 to require the director of the Legislative Research Commission to establish a written sexual harassment policy for all employees of the Commission; require that all reports be investigated in as confidential a manner as possible; require that no person who objects to harassment, makes a complaint, or assists in an investigation shall be subject to retaliation; amend KRS 18A.030 to require the secretary of personnel to establish a written sexual harassment policy for all executive branch employees; require that all reports be investigated in as confidential a manner as possible; require that no person who objects to harassment, makes a complaint, or assists in an investigation shall be subject to retaliation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB449/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB449.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1095609,"bill_number":"SR225","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Juanita McCann Herron.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Juanita McCann Herron.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR225/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR225.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1095613,"bill_number":"HB436","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of rental equipment.","description":"Amend KRS 132.010 to define equipment rental inventory; amend KRS 132.020 to add equipment rental inventory to the five cents tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to establish provisions for a one and one-half percent tangible personal property tax recovery fee that an equipment rental company may include in a rental agreement on equipment rental inventory; amend KRS 139.470 to exclude the tangible personal property tax recovery fee from the gross receipts calculation for sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB436/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB436.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1095616,"bill_number":"SR224","title":"Urge the United States Congress to support federal legislation in advancement of the Appalachian Storage Hub.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to support federal legislation in advancement of the Appalachian Storage Hub.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR224/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR224.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1095619,"bill_number":"SB197","title":"AN ACT relating to water well drillers.","description":"Amend KRS 223.400 to define \"water well driller's assistant\"; amend KRS 223.405 to require anyone who engages in activities associated with drilling a water well to have a valid certificate as a water well driller or water well driller's assistant; amend KRS 223.425 to delete the examination exemption for persons in business since 1984 and establish the application, examination, and other requirements for certified water well driller's assistants; amend KRS 223.447 to establish fees for water well driller's assistant certifications; and amend KRS 223.450 to include water well driller's assistants to comply with requirements before performing work.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"to Rules (S)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB197/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB197.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1095625,"bill_number":"SB195","title":"AN ACT relating to information technology.","description":"Amend KRS 154.15-010 to create a definition for paid prioritization; create a new section of Subchapter 15 of KRS Chapter 154 to require KentuckyWired contracts between the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and public or private Internet service providers contain certain provisions to ensure open and fair access to the network by customers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB195/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB195.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1095627,"bill_number":"HB447","title":"AN ACT relating to animal torture.","description":"Amend KRS 525.135 relating to torture of a dog or cat to prohibit any form of early release for those who committed the offense as a way to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family member or member of a dating relationship.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB447/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB447.htm","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1095630,"bill_number":"HB450","title":"AN ACT relating to quota licenses for alcohol.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet counties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to codify the quota license system for alcoholic beverages for wet cities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to specify the department's process for verifying quota numbers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 241 to allow a city or county to petition for a quota increase and establish criteria for the board to consider; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to outline petition requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to notify quota license holders that quotas may be increased; amend KRS 241.065 to conform with population data.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB450/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB450.htm","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1095634,"bill_number":"SB192","title":"AN ACT relating to health.","description":"Amend KRS 205.203 to include gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB192/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB192.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1095637,"bill_number":"HB438","title":"AN ACT relating to innovation academies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define innovation academies and identify the Kentucky Board of Education's role in authorizing innovation academies; identify the requirements for a school applying to become an innovation academy.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB438/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB438.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1095639,"bill_number":"HB435","title":"AN ACT relating to real estate.","description":"Amend KRS 324.360 to require it to apply to all real estate transactions if any person licensed under Chapter 324 receives compensation; require the Kentucky Real Estate Commission to promulgate administrative regulations authorizing seller disclosure forms for residential single family, residential multi-family, vacant land, and commercial properties; eliminate the exception for the use of a seller's disclosure of conditions form for residential purchases of new homes if a warranty is offered.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB435/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB435.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1095643,"bill_number":"SR221","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wesley Short.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wesley Short.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR221/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR221.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1095645,"bill_number":"SR227","title":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Susan Webb for her nearly 50 years of service to the Clarkson and Grayson County communities.","description":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Susan Webb for her nearly 50 years of service to the Clarkson and Grayson County communities.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR227/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR227.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1095647,"bill_number":"HB439","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.015 to amend the definition of \"contributing organization,\" to add a new definition for \"electioneering communication,\" and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 121.190 to extend requirements for disclosure in campaign advertisements to Internet and electronic communication network announcements, to cover electioneering communications, and to apply disclosures in advertisements and communications made by additional groups and organizations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to require any person or group making electioneering communications expenditures in an amount greater than $3,000 during an election to follow the same registration and reporting schedule as candidates and slates of candidates and specify the information to be reported, and to require any person or group making electioneering communications expenditures in an amount greater than $1,000 in the 15 days before an election to file reports electronically within 48 hours of the expenditure or the communication, whichever is sooner, and to specify that contributions for electioneering communications make the contributors a contributing organization.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB439/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB439.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1095652,"bill_number":"HB446","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.165 and KRS 118A.060 to require each candidate for elected office to file with their nomination papers, a Certificate of Good Standing issued by the Kentucky Bar Association, demonstrating proof of license to practice law in the courts of the Commonwealth for those elected offices that require a license to practice law; when requesting a Certificate of Good Standing, obtaining discipline or grievance history is not required, nor is a Certificate of Admissions required; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB446/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB446.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1095655,"bill_number":"SB193","title":"AN ACT relating to health.","description":"Amend KRS 311.271 to include gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB193/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB193.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1095657,"bill_number":"SB198","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rural Rehabilitation Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to make a gender-neutral reference.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB198/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB198.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1095661,"bill_number":"HB453","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 164.515 to allow spouses and children of disabled veterans with service-connected disability evaluations of 70 percent or greater to qualify for tuition exemption at public universities; amend KRS 164.284, 164.2841, 164.2842, 164.2847, 164.507, and 164.515 to require students to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to determine the level of need and eligibility for state and federal financial aid programs; limit the amount of tuition waived to the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the institution less any state or federal grants received, which shall be credited first to the student's tuition and fees; amend KRS 164.020 to remove the requirement for the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop a statewide policy to promote employee and faculty development in all postsecondary institutions and in state and locally operated secondary area technology centers through the waiver of tuition for college credit coursework in the public postsecondary education system.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB453/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB453.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1095664,"bill_number":"HB443","title":"AN ACT relating to nonprofit corporations.","description":"Amend, create, and repeal and reenact various sections of KRS Chapter 273 to modernize statutes regulating nonprofit corporations.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 193)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB443/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB443.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1095666,"bill_number":"HB437","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale or disposition of certain county property.","description":"Amend KRS 67.0802 to clarify that any proceeds from property disposed of by a county that was acquired through forfeiture or purchased using restricted funds under KRS 218A.420(4)(a) shall be transferred to a restricted account under KRS 218A.420.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB437/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB437.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1095897,"bill_number":"HB464","title":"AN ACT relating to credit for reinsurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.5-140 to define \"NAIC\"; allow commissioner of Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations establishing additional requirements for certain reinsurance arrangements; require accredited reinsurers to demonstrate adequate financial capacity; authorize reduction in trusteed surplus for certain assuming insurers maintaining a trust for the payment of reinsurance claims; establish requirements for certain assuming insurers maintaining a trust for the payment of reinsurance claims; establish requirements for assuming insurers that have been certified or seek to be certified as a reinsurer in Kentucky; require the commissioner to publish a list of qualified jurisdictions under which assuming insurers are eligible to be considered for certification as a reinsurer; require the commissioner to assign and publish a list setting forth the rating for each certified reinsurer; authorize the commissioner to suspend or revoke a reinsurer's accreditation or certification and establish due process procedures; establish requirements for the management of a ceding insurer's reinsurance recoverables; allow the commissioner to permit a certified reinsurer to defer posting security for catastrophic recoverables under certain circumstances; include certain exempted assets as acceptable forms of security permitted for certain reinsurance arrangements; authorize commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; make conforming amendments; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 194)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB464/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB464.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1095908,"bill_number":"HB462","title":"AN ACT relating to liens on real property.","description":"Amend KRS 382.365 to provide specific requirements and the format of an affidavit filed by an attorney to provide evidence of a release of a lien encumbering real property with the county clerk's office.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB462/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB462.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1095921,"bill_number":"HB460","title":"AN ACT relating to community mental health center regional service areas.","description":"Amend KRS 210.370 to establish fifteen community mental health center regional service areas and to establish that a single community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability or nonprofit corporation may administer programs and clinics in multiple regional service areas.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB460/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB460.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1095934,"bill_number":"HB459","title":"AN ACT relating to an adoption tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified adoption expenses incurred by an individual in an amount equal to 20% of the allowable federal credit for qualified adoption expenses; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB459/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB459.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1095946,"bill_number":"HR191","title":"Encourage local governments and local public agencies providing playgrounds to utilize equipment accessible to and usable by all persons regardless of what challenges they may face.","description":"Encourage local governments and local public agencies providing playgrounds to utilize equipment accessible to and usable by all persons regardless of what challenges they may face.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"3rd reading, passed 94-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR191/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR191.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1095959,"bill_number":"SB200","title":"AN ACT relating to executive orders.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require executive orders issued by the Governor to be identified by year of issuance and subject area, to be numbered consecutively within year of issuance and subject area categories, and to be filed with the Secretary of State; require the Secretary of State to forward certain executive orders identified to the director of the Legislative Research Commission on the date filed; require the co-chairs of the Legislative Research Commission to refer executive orders relating to reorganization of state government and other matters pertaining to the operation or official policy of the government, to the legislative committee of jurisdiction within two working days after the order is received by the Legislative Research Commission; provide that executive orders relating to appointments requiring confirmation, reorganization of state government, and other matters pertaining to the operation or official policy of the government shall not become effective until 35 days after being filed with the Secretary of State; require the committee of referral to review the executive order within 30 days and report its findings and objections; require an objection by the reviewing committee to be upon the vote of a majority of the committee members of either chamber; direct that executive orders pertaining to governmental policy which were objected to by a reviewing committee be identified in legislation drafted for introduction by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House on the first day of the regular session; require the proposed legislation to declare each identified deficient executive order void upon enactment of the legislation, prohibit the Governor from adopting executive orders that are the same or substantially the same as the voided executive order for one year from sine die adjournment of the legislative session in which the legislation is enacted, and contain an emergency clause; permit the General Assembly to amend the proposed legislation to add executive orders, delete executive orders, or include reorganization orders which have not been enacted into law; require the Governor to compile a list of all executive orders currently in effect and provide the list to the Legislative Research Commission by September 30, 2018; require the Governor to identify executive orders that should remain in effect and those he or she shall revoke or repeal as obsolete or no longer necessary; provide that executive orders the Governor does not continue in effect or revoke or repeal on another date will cease to exist as of October 1, 2018; require legislative review of executive orders that the Govenor has identified should remain in effect; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require each administrative body created by executive order or administrative order to cease to exist at the end of the issuing Governor's or other statewide elected official's term of office unless established by General Assembly enactment; amend KRS 12.028, relating to the reorganization of state government, to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 201)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB200/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB200.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1095974,"bill_number":"HB461","title":"AN ACT relating to supplements paid to police officers, professional firefighters, and qualified volunteer fire departments, declaring an emergency, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 15.460, relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund, to increase the stipend paid to police officers to $4,000 and make the beginning date for the stipend commence July 1, 2018; add provisions for an administrative expense payable to each city, county, combination of cities and counties, or county sheriff's office; restate that the payment to the police is to be transmitted to the police officer by the stipulated local government; amend KRS 95A.250, relating to the Firefighters Foundation Program fund, to increase the stipend paid to professional firefighters to $4,000 and make the beginning date for the firefighter stipend commence July 1, 2018; add provisions for an administrative expense payable to each eligible local government; update reference to Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the volunteer fire department allotment to $11,000 and make the beginning date for the allotment July 1, 2018; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB461/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB461.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1095986,"bill_number":"SR228","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant William M. Bays.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant William M. Bays.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR228/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR228.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1095998,"bill_number":"HB457","title":"AN ACT relating to probation and parole supervision.","description":"Amend the definition of \"supervised individual\" in KRS 439.250; amend KRS 439.3106 to create a new form of sanction to be applied by the Parole Board at final revocation hearings; provide that under a supervision continuation sanction, a sanctioned individual shall be returned to a jail, prison, halfway house, or inpatient treatment facility without revoking parole for up to nine months; reinstate the sanctioned individual to prior parole supervision conditions upon completion of the sanction, or return the individual to the parole board for revocation if the sanction is not successfully completed; amend KRS 439.3108 to allow probation and parole violators to have work release while in custody on discretionary detention.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB457/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB457.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1096013,"bill_number":"HR189","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Franklin \"Billy\" Graham Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Franklin \"Billy\" Graham Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR189/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR189.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1096025,"bill_number":"SB201","title":"AN ACT relating to services for children and transition-age youth.","description":"Amend KRS 200.503 to define \"system of care\" and \"transition-age youth\"; amend KRS 200.505 to alter membership and name of state interagency council; amend KRS 200.509 to change membership of regional interagency councils; amend KRS 605.035 to change participation of members of regional interagency councils in family accountability, intervention, and response teams; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 120)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB201/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB201.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1096038,"bill_number":"HB458","title":"AN ACT relating to the military park at Perryville.","description":"Repeal KRS 3.040 and amend KRS 3.050, both relating to the military park at Perryville, to conform grant of acreage to the federal goverment to the size of the park at the time of the conveyance.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB458/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB458.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1096053,"bill_number":"SB199","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 243.0305 to allow a distiller to deliver or ship its products under certain conditions; permit distillery visitors to buy up to nine liters of souvenir package products per purchaser per day; limit subscription or club program members to nine liters shipped per calendar year; amend KRS 243.120 and 243.130 to emphasize commitment to the three-tier alcohol system and prohibit delivery into dry or moist territory; authorize distillers to sell their products by the package at their distillery premises; make exception for new types of sales and deliveries; amend KRS 243.200 to set requirements for a licensed transporter to transport alcoholic beverages from a licensee's premises to a purchaser's residence; amend KRS 243.240 to allow a quota retail package licensee to deliver or ship products to a customer's residence through a transporter or a common carrier; restrict deliveries to only those customers who purchased the products at the licensed premises; amend KRS 244.165 to authorize shipment by an out-of-state distillery or winery that is licensed in Kentucky to a Kentucky resident who made the purchase in-person at that distillery or winery; set standards for transporters or common carriers who make the out-of-state shipments; amend KRS 244.240 to exempt a distiller delivering under the new rules from the prohibition against involvement in retail sales.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB199/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB199.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1096065,"bill_number":"HB456","title":"AN ACT relating to the posting of signage to prevent human trafficking.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to list businesses and entities and require those entities to prominently post a notice about human trafficking and include a toll-free number and a number for receiving text messages; require the Department for Public Health to create and make a notice available on its Web site; establish a penalty for noncompliance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB456/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB456.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1096078,"bill_number":"HB463","title":"AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefits.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define cost sharing; prohibit an insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other administrator from requiring payment for prescription drugs in excess of certain amounts; prohibit an insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other administrator from imposing a penalty on a pharmacist or pharmacy for complying as required; prohibit an insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other administrator from prohibiting a pharmacist or pharmacy from discussing information relating to cost sharing or selling a more affordable alternative to the insured; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 144)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB463/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB463.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1096092,"bill_number":"SB202","title":"AN ACT relating to the Council on Postsecondary Education.","description":"Amend KRS 164.013 to make the employment of a search firm optional when filling the position of the Council on Postsecondary Education president; delete the requirement that the president's compensation exceed that of any public university president.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB202/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB202.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1096104,"bill_number":"HJR190","title":"Direct the Commissioner of Education, with assistance of the Kentucky Center for School Safety, to conduct a survey to gather data on steps each school has taken to ensure students' safety.","description":"Direct the Commissioner of Education, with assistance of the Kentucky Center for School Safety, to conduct a survey to gather data on steps each school has taken to ensure students' safety.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-23","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR190/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR190.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1096733,"bill_number":"HB530","title":"AN ACT relating to personalized license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.174, regarding personalized license plates, to have personalized plates expire on the last day of the birth month of the applicant, rather than on December 31st of each year; set forth schedule for transition to a new expiration date for current license holders; set the replacement schedule for personalized license to match that for regular plates; amend KRS 186.164 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 148)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB530/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB530.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1096735,"bill_number":"HB469","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.035 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB469/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB469.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1096736,"bill_number":"SR229","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Buford Kinchen.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Arthur Buford Kinchen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR229/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR229.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1096738,"bill_number":"HB505","title":"AN ACT related to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-320 to provide that every insurer shall provide underinsured motorist coverage in the insurance policy or supplement; provide that the insured may reject underinsured motorist coverage in writing; provide that if a named insured rejected underinsured coverage, the insurer is not required to provide coverage supplemental to a reinstatement, substitute, replacement, or amended policy issued to the same named insured by the same insurer or its affiliates unless a named insured requests the coverage in writing; require the Department of Insurance to establish a form for the rejection of coverage; amend KRS 304.39-040 to provide that every insurer writing liability insurance coverage for motorcycles shall provide coverage for basic reparation benefits, uninsured motorist coverage, underinsured motorist coverage, and added reparation benefits; allow a named insured to reject such coverage in writing; provide that if a named insured rejected basic reparations benefits, uninsured motorists coverage, and underinsured coverage, the insurer is not required to provide coverage supplemental to a reinstatement, substitute, replacement, or amended policy issued to the same named insured by the same insurer or its affiliates, unless a named insured requests the coverage in writing; require the Department of Insurance to establish a form for the rejection of coverage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB505/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB505.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1096739,"bill_number":"SR234","title":"Confirm the reappointment of W. Greg Harvey as adminsitrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of W. Greg Harvey as adminsitrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR234/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR234.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1096741,"bill_number":"HB479","title":"AN ACT relating to apprenticeships.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to declare a tax credit for the small businesses that have an apprenticeship program and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 343 to require the Department of Workplace Standards to certify to the Department of Revenue the small businesses with apprenticeship programs and set out purpose of the tax credit; and amend various sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB479/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB479.htm","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1096743,"bill_number":"HB520","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt charitable gaming supplies and equipment from sales and use tax; establish reporting requirements; amend KRS 131.190 to allow Department of Revenue to comply; amend various statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB520/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB520.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1096744,"bill_number":"SB206","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 411.200 to make gender-neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB206/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB206.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1096746,"bill_number":"HB519","title":"AN ACT relating to qualifying payroll expenditures.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010, relating to refundable tax credits for motion picture or entertainment production expenses.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB519/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB519.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1096747,"bill_number":"HB528","title":"AN ACT relating to joint custody.","description":"Amend KRS 403.270 to create a presumption that joint custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interrest of the child, and to require the court to consider the motiviation of the aduts involved when determining the best interest of the child for custody orders; amend KRS 403.280 to specify that the presumption of joint custody and equal parenting time is in the best interest of the child; amend KRS 403.320 to allow a parent not granted custody or shared parenting time to petition for reasonable visitation rights; amend KRS 403.340 to specify that if a court modifies a custody decree there is a rebuttable presumption that it is in the best interest of the child for the parents to have joint custody and equally shared parenting time.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 198)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB528/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB528.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1096749,"bill_number":"HB523","title":"AN ACT relating to the judiciary.","description":"Amend KRS 27A.010, relating to the executive head of the Court of Justice, to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB523/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB523.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":1096751,"bill_number":"HB532","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 141.023 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB532/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB532.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1096753,"bill_number":"HB466","title":"AN ACT relating to incarceration costs.","description":"Amend KRS 441.025 to require the financial responsibility incurred by incarcerating an inmate to be the responsibility of the fiscal court of the county where the originating charge, order, or warrant was issued regardless of the arresting county's location.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB466/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB466.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1096755,"bill_number":"HB512","title":"AN ACT relating to qualifications of officers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 16.040 to require officers appointed with a high school diploma or GED and additional experience to complete 60 hours of credit or an associate's degree prior to the end of probation; specify that not completing the education requirement will result in discharge.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 146)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB512/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB512.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1096757,"bill_number":"SR232","title":"Recognize March 3, 2018, as Hearing Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize March 3, 2018, as Hearing Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR232/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR232.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1096759,"bill_number":"HB489","title":"AN ACT relating to insurer's loss run statements.","description":"Amend KRS 304.20-100 to reduce the period for loss run statements from 5 years to 3 years; prohibit the inclusion of any reference to loss reserves for claims prior to the 3 year period that the statement covers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB489/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB489.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1096760,"bill_number":"HB525","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.015 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB525/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB525.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1096762,"bill_number":"HB492","title":"AN ACT relating to racial impact statements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6, relating to legislation considered by the General Assembly, to require racial impact statements when indicated.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB492/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB492.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1096763,"bill_number":"HB517","title":"AN ACT relating to grandparent visitation.","description":"Amend KRS 405.021 to create a presumption that grandparent visitation is in the child's best interest when there is a significant and viable relationship between the child and grandparent, and the parent who is the child of the grandparent is deceased; amend KRS 620.090 to require the court to consider granting visitation rights to the grandparents who are not granted temporary custody.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 197)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB517/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB517.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1096765,"bill_number":"HB485","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.18-090 to include gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB485/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB485.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1096767,"bill_number":"SR230","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billie Sue Davis.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billie Sue Davis.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR230/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR230.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1096768,"bill_number":"HB510","title":"AN ACT relating to the wearing of masks in public.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to prohibit the wearing of a hood, mask, or disguise in public for the purpose of concealing a person's identity during the commission of a crime.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB510/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB510.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1096771,"bill_number":"HB473","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to abortion.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to clarify that our state Constitution does not create a right to abortion or a right to funding for an abortion; specify that the General Assembly has the full authority to protect human life in this Commonwealth from the moment of fertilization until natural death without regard to age, health, or condition of dependency; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB473/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB473.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1096772,"bill_number":"HB491","title":"AN ACT relating to an income tax exemption for uniformed services retirement benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude United States uniformed services retirees' pension income and survivor benefits income from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, and ending before January 1, 2022; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB491/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB491.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1096774,"bill_number":"HR198","title":"Honor outgoing Kentucky Dental Association President Dr. Ansley Depp.","description":"Honor outgoing Kentucky Dental Association President Dr. Ansley Depp.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR198/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR198.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1096775,"bill_number":"HB481","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.48-080 to remove reference to executive director.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB481/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB481.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1096777,"bill_number":"HB518","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to make the termination of employment without cause to be unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge and when the employers' internal procedures are used.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB518/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB518.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1096779,"bill_number":"HB534","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 500.070 to make gender neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB534/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB534.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1096780,"bill_number":"HB499","title":"AN ACT relating to child support.","description":"Amend KRS 403.212 to update the amounts outlined in the child support table.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB499/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB499.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1096783,"bill_number":"HB504","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-110 to raise the minimum required amounts of motor vehicle insurance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB504/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB504.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1096784,"bill_number":"HB493","title":"AN ACT relating to infertility treatment coverage.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304, relating to health benefit plans, to require coverage for infertility treatment; prohibit insurers from denying coverage for services which would otherwise be covered services solely because the services may result in infertility; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to establish guidelines and standards for the coverage required; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the State Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to establish guidelines and standards for the provision of infertility services; amend KRS 18A-225 to require infertility coverage for the state employee health plan; amend KRS 205.560 to include infertility treatment in the scope of care for the Kentucky Medical Assistance Program; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB493/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB493.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1096786,"bill_number":"HB526","title":"AN ACT relating to school report cards.","description":"Amend KRS 158.6453 to require school report cards to report the required components by English language learner.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB526/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB526.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1096787,"bill_number":"HB474","title":"AN ACT relating to early voting in-person absentee voting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish that in-person absentee voting be conducted at least 12 working days, including two Saturdays, before the Sunday prior to election day and to permit a county board of elections to establish a longer period of time for in-person absentee voting; allow members of a county board of elections to work as precinct election officers without compensation during in-person absentee voting; amend KRS 117.145 to require the county clerk to equip the in-person absentee voting machines with the necessary supplies, including a pencil or a pen for the purpose of write-in votes at least 5 days before the in-person absentee voting period begins and to increase from 15 to 45 the number of days the county clerk is required to have ballots and labels for a special election; amend KRS 117.085, 117.0851, 117.087, 117.165, 117.235, 118.035, and 118.405 to conform; repeal KRS 117.088.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB474/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB474.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":1096790,"bill_number":"HB494","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of Kentucky's adults.","description":"Amend KRS 381.230 to establish 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; 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; clarify neglect of an adult and establish penalties; amend KRS 209.990 to delete existing penalties for abuse, exploitation, and neglect; amend KRS 209.020 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to create a rebuttable presumption that transfers of real or personal property made by protected adults and not supported by adequate consideration were made under undue influence.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB494/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB494.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1096791,"bill_number":"HB509","title":"AN ACT relating to kidney dialysis.","description":"Amend KRS 315.0351 and 315.040 to allow a person or pharmacy located outside this Commonwealth to sell or distribute dialysate, drugs, or devices necessary to perform home peritoneal kidney dialysis to patients with end-stage renal disease, provided that certain criteria are followed; amend KRS 315.400 to change the definition of \"Wholesale distribution.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB509/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB509.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1096793,"bill_number":"HB514","title":"AN ACT relating to telecommunications.","description":"Amend KRS 367.46955 to prohibit telephone solicitation using deceptive caller identification information.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Small Business & Information Technology (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Small Business & Information Technology","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB514/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB514.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1096795,"bill_number":"HB524","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 12.080 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB524/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB524.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1096796,"bill_number":"HB471","title":"AN ACT relating to contracting of public works projects and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set guidelines for awarding contracts for public works projects; set forth that public agencies awarding contracts can't require or prohibit bidders to adhere to agreements with a labor organization relating to a public works project; set restrictions on a public agency in awarding a grant, tax abatement, or tax credit in situations contrary to the provisions of the Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB471/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB471.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1096798,"bill_number":"SB205","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax tangible personal property purchased by a contractor or subcontractor for incorporation into a structure or improvement to real property under a construction contract with the federal government, state or local government, or a resident, nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institution.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB205/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB205.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1096799,"bill_number":"HB507","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Create new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to set a residential fixed customer charge to recover no more than fixed capital costs for metering, billing, service connections, and customer service for electric, natural gas, and water utilities; amend KRS 278.010 to define \"customer charge\"; amend KRS 278.030 to include affordability as a criterion for utility rates and to establish that the policy of the Commonwealth is to require costs to be reasonable and to provide for their recovery; require the Public Service Commission to balance the interests of the utility, investors, and consumer in establishing fair, just, reasonable and affordable rates; amend KRS 278.183 to require that the costs paid through the environmental surcharge and subjected to two year review are subject to apportionment of fixed, direct capital costs for metering, billing, connection, and service; amend KRS 278.190 to allow the commission to examine the determination of costs and apply standards for rates that include affordability and balancing of interests of various parties affected by the rate; amend KRS 278.255 to require a management and operations audit beginning December 31, 2018, and every five years thereafter and to require the results of the audit be made available on the Public Service Commission and each audited utility's Web site; exempt electric distribution cooperatives from the initial and periodic audit requirements; amend KRS 278.260 to require the Public Service Commission to give the Office of the Attorney General's Office of Rate Intervention notice of any investigation into unreasonable or discriminatory rates, measurements or practices by a utility under its jurisdiction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB507/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB507.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1096801,"bill_number":"HB529","title":"AN ACT relating to sentencing credits.","description":"Amend KRS 197.010 and 197.045 to allow sentencing credits for life skills programs and promising practices.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB529/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB529.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1096802,"bill_number":"HB500","title":"AN ACT relating to employment agreements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 417 to prevent an employer from having a defense to a claim that an arbitration agreement is unconscionable if the employee alleges claims of sexual harassment and was not fully informed of the inclusion of the arbitration agreement or its impact at the time that the employment agreement was entered into, or if the inclusion of an arbitration provision in the agreement was a condition of employment; prohibit a court from enforcing or compelling arbitration if it finds that a provision of an agreement is unconscionable; limit their restrictions to judicial proceedings initiated on or after the effective date of this Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB500/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB500.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1096804,"bill_number":"HB503","title":"AN ACT relating to attorneys.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 creating a statute of limitations for actions asserting that an attorney engaged in solicitation; repeal KRS 21A.300, KRS 21A.310, and KRS 21A.320.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB503/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB503.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1096806,"bill_number":"HB472","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 119 and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to judges of the district court.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 119 and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky extending the term of district judges from four years to six years and increasing the requirement of being a licensed attorney from two years to at least four years to serve as a district judge.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB472/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB472.htm","sponsor":"Wesley Morgan"},
{"bill_id":1096807,"bill_number":"HB531","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 141.018 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB531/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB531.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1096812,"bill_number":"HB476","title":"AN ACT relating to compensatory time.","description":"Amend KRS 337.285 to allow Trooper R and CVE R law enforcement officers to receive and use compensatory time for time worked over forty hours per week.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 195)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB476/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB476.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1096813,"bill_number":"HJR196","title":"Designate a portion of US Route 79 in Todd County in memory of Sgt. William M. Bays.","description":"Designate a portion of US Route 79 in Todd County in memory of Sgt. William M. Bays.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 166)","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR196/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR196.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1096815,"bill_number":"HB465","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Establish and create various sections of KRS Chapter 308, relating to Public Protection Cabinet oversight of state occupational boards; define terms; declare policy regarding occupational licensing; list boards that are regulated under KRS Chapter 308; require the Department of Professional Licensing to provide administrative services, technical assistance, personnel staffing, and meeting space to the boards; organize the boards under seven authorities within the department; manage each authority with an executive director; establish a process for the department to review and evaluate each of its boards once every five years; set standards regarding board members, including appointments by the Governor, three year terms, quorum via majority, and voting eligibility; institute board per diem and travel expense rules; direct board officer elections, board member disqualification standards, and semiannual meeting requirements; establish general board powers; require executive director approval before a board may promulgate an administrative regulation; instruct boards to keep a register of licensees and make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; fix a set timeline for processing license applications; mandate that any license issued by a board be valid for at least two years; require boards to establish disciplinary review committees to process complaints against licensees; designate the process and limitations for the Governor's appointments to boards based on recommendations from nominating groups; require a licensee to report criminal convictions to the licensee's board; establish continuing education requirements and exemptions; immunize board members, staff, legal counsel, and other persons from civil liability for conduct that is taken in good faith and is within the scope and arising out of the performance of their duties; direct the boards to send licensees a thirty-day notice of expiration both before and after the expiration occurs; prohibit a board from issuing an advisory opinion unless authorized by the board's enabling act; establish the Prescribing Boards Advisory Council within the department, composed of eight ex officio members with expertise in combatting prescription drug abuse; amend KRS 12.020 to add the new authorities and the Office of Inspector General to the cabinet; amend KRS 12.252 to describe the powers and duties of the cabinet's Office of Inspector General; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 198B, 216A, 309, 310, 311, 311B, 312, 313, 314, 314A, 315, 316, 317, 317A, 317B, 319, 319A, 319B, 319C, 320, 322, 322A, 323, 323A, 324, 324A, 325, 326, 327, 329A, 330, 334, 334A, and 335 to conform; amend KRS 325.230 to place the State Board of Accountancy within the Department of Financial Institutions; amend KRS 48.315 to conform; repeal KRS 216A.050, 310.080, 311.540, 311.882, 311B.060, 312.045, 312.055, 312.065, 315.171, 319A.030, 319A.040, 319A.050, 322.260, 322.270, 323.160, 323.180, 323.190, 323.200, 323A.150, 323A.180, 323A.190, 323A.200, 324.2811, 324.284, 324A.025, 324B.010, 324B.020, 324B.030, 324B.040, 324B.050, 324B.060, 334.170, 334A.100, 334A.110, 335.060, and 335.307.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB465/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB465.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1096816,"bill_number":"HB513","title":"AN ACT relating to privately owned small wastewater treatment plants.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 73 of KRS Chapter 224 to define \"sewage\" and \"small wastewater treatment plant\"; allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet to require structural analyses of small wastewater treatment plants under certain conditions; allow the cabinet to require small wastewater treatment plants' owners to secure financial or performance measures that may include insurance policies or financial instruments, surety bonds or other instrument or reasonable guaranties, the utilization of asset management plans or capacity, management, operation and maintenance measures, and financial assurance measures that ensure the plant operates in conformity with applicable laws and that the plant is maintained properly; allow the cabinet have the ability to seek the appointment of a permanent or temporary receiver, custodian, or fiduciary to assume the management and operations of a plant.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 196)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB513/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB513.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1096818,"bill_number":"HB470","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.160 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB470/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB470.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1096820,"bill_number":"SB203","title":"AN ACT relating to public-private partnership projects.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.077 to suspend the requirement for General Assembly approval for public-private partnership projects contracted for projects publicized prior to July 1, 2020; allow discussion of the project after public notice has been given of the proposal; remove requirement for approval of the Government Contract Review Committee of the public-private partnership contract.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 92)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB203/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB203.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1096821,"bill_number":"HB527","title":"AN ACT relating to the educational stability of children in out-of-home placements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 199.800 to 199.805 to provide that the Department for Community Based Services shall place a foster child within the school district where the child was enrolled immediately prior to placement if practicable; require the department to make the determination on whether a foster child shall remain enrolled in the school of origin based upon a determination of the best interest of the child; provide that the cost of transportation shall not be a factor in the determination of the best interest of the child; require reasonable transportation to be offered if the department determines it is in the best interest of the child to remain enrolled in the school of origin after placement in a new school district; establish procedures for enrolling a foster child if changing the child's school of enrollment is in the best interest of the child; require the district in which the foster child is enrolled upon successful completion of high school graduation requirements to issue a diploma to the child.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 147)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB527/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB527.htm","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1096823,"bill_number":"HB478","title":"AN ACT relating to public notice.","description":"Amend KRS 64.810, 65.530, 65.686, 65A.050, 67.090, 67.855, 67A.070, 67A.160, 67A.847, 68.245, 74.361, 76.278, 77.265, 91A.565, 91.756, 94.835, 96.5395, 96A.340, 103.210, 107.360,157.160, 158.6453, 160.210, 160.463, 160.470, 160.603, 160,614, and 178.330 to delete the requirement that a local government, special district, or school board give public notice through newspaper advertisement and replace the notice requirement with publication on the government's or district's Web site; amend KRS 424.130, 424.150, 424.170, 424.220, 424.240, 424.250, 424.260,424.270, 424.280, and 424.330 to add publishing on a Web site as a method of advertisement; amend KRS 91A.040, 324A.163, 393,110, and 424.215 to conform; repeal KRS 424.190.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB478/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB478.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1096824,"bill_number":"HB508","title":"AN ACT relating to the retirement and reemployment of certified peace officers and other hazardous duty positions in state and local government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.637 to allow either a retiree or the participating employer reemploying the retiree to notify the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) that the retiree has accepted employment with an agency participating in the systems administered by KRS and to require no notice if the reemployment occurs at least six months after retirement; allow either a retiree or the participating employer who contracts with a retiree for a paid position to submit a copy of the contract to KRS and require submission of the contract if the reemployment occurs at least six months after retirement; provide that certified peace officers shall be required to observe a one-month break in service rather than a three-month break in service if reemployed to a position with the State Police Retirement System or as a hazardous member or certified peace officer with the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the County Employees Retirement System; provide that an individual retiring from any system of KRS who retires from a hazardous position or as a certified peace officer and is reemployed after six months shall be presumed to have no prearranged agreement with the employer; amend KRS 70.292 to make conforming amendment for sheriffs' officers reemploying certified police officers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB508/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB508.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":1096826,"bill_number":"HB475","title":"AN ACT relating to caller identification services.","description":"Amend KRS 367.46955 to prohibit knowingly using a caller identification service or interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent of defrauding or causing harm to another person or wrongfully obtaining anything of value; amend KRS 367.46999 to provide that any person who is found guilty of violating KRS 367.46955(9) must be fined no less than $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for any subsequent offense and also must pay restitution of any financial benefit secured through conduct proscribed by KRS 367.46955(9).","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 145)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB475/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB475.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1096827,"bill_number":"HB522","title":"AN ACT relating to the judiciary.","description":"Amend KRS 21A.030, relating to the clerk of the Supreme Court, to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB522/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB522.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":1096829,"bill_number":"SR231","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Reverend William Bullard Guerrant Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Reverend William Bullard Guerrant Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR231/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR231.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1096832,"bill_number":"SB204","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax checkoff programs and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide taxpayers the option to donate to the Kentucky CASA network fund from their individual income tax refund; require the Department of Revenue to place the designation on the face of the Kentucky individual income tax return; provide information about the Kentucky CASA network fund in the return's instructions; transfer the funds designated by taxpayers to the Kentucky CASA network fund by July 1; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish the Kentucky CASA network fund and describe the requirements of the fund.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 62)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB204/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB204.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1096833,"bill_number":"HB483","title":"AN ACT relating to financial institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 286.3-185 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB483/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB483.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1096835,"bill_number":"HB482","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.50-145 to remove reference to executive director.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB482/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB482.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1096837,"bill_number":"SR235","title":"Recognize the Kentucky Community and Technical College System's 20th anniversary.","description":"Recognize the Kentucky Community and Technical College System's 20th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR235/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR235.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1096839,"bill_number":"HR197","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Margaret Carter Jackson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Margaret Carter Jackson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR197/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR197.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1096840,"bill_number":"HR195","title":"Celebrate March 19, 2018, as Kentucky Celebrating Women in Public Office Day.","description":"Celebrate March 19, 2018, as Kentucky Celebrating Women in Public Office Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR195/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR195.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1096842,"bill_number":"HB484","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.2-210 to include gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB484/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB484.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1096844,"bill_number":"HB490","title":"AN ACT relating to city revenue and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.400 to allow any home rule class city to levy a restaurant tax and use the proceeds to defray County Employee Retirement System (CERS) contributions; amend KRS 91A.390 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB490/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB490.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1096845,"bill_number":"HB467","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.350 to eliminate the waiting week for all employees in the Commonwealth eligible for unemployment insurance benefits; amend KRS 341.090 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB467/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB467.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1096847,"bill_number":"HB498","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define \"assault weapon\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the possession of an assault weapon by a person under 21 years of age unless they are a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a law enforcement officer; create penalties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB498/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB498.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1096848,"bill_number":"HB506","title":"AN ACT relating to the payment of insurance claims for reimbursement of health care services.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers that fail to timely pay claims for reimbursement of health care services to pay interest and be subject to liability for any damages caused by the delay in payment; amend KRS 304.12-235 and KRS 304.39-210 to conform; amend KRS 304.39-241 to allow the assignment of certain loss claims for medical expense under the Motor Vehicle Reparations Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB506/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB506.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1096851,"bill_number":"HB535","title":"Mar 22-WITHDRAWN","description":"Mar 22-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB535/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB535.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1096852,"bill_number":"HR199","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert A. Knoop Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert A. Knoop Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR199/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR199.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1096854,"bill_number":"HJR192","title":"Designate the William \"Bill\" Ashcraft Memorial Bridge in Pendleton County.","description":"Designate the William \"Bill\" Ashcraft Memorial Bridge in Pendleton County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR192/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR192.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1096856,"bill_number":"HB486","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development and workforce investment.","description":"Amend KRS 337.055 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB486/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB486.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1096857,"bill_number":"HB521","title":"AN ACT relating to exempting property used in the deployment of advanced broadband technologies from state and local ad valorem taxation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt property used in the deployment of advanced broadband technologies from state and local ad valorem tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, but prior to January 1, 2022; amend KRS 132.010 to define property used in the deployment of advanced broadband technologies; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB521/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB521.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1096859,"bill_number":"HB511","title":"AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.","description":"Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services optional; allow local government entities and special districts to void implementation of the programs by legislative action.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB511/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB511.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1096860,"bill_number":"SR233","title":"Confirm the appointment of Jefferson Vimont Layson III as administrative law judge to the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2020.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jefferson Vimont Layson III as administrative law judge to the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR233/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR233.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1096863,"bill_number":"HB468","title":"Mar 02-WITHDRAWN","description":"Mar 02-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB468/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB468.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1096864,"bill_number":"HB487","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 337.055 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-27","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 207)","last_action_date":"2018-04-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB487/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB487.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1096866,"bill_number":"HB515","title":"AN ACT relating to venue in civil actions that include the Commonwealth or its agencies.","description":"Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to the Franklin Circuit Court to provide alternative concurrent venue and jurisdiction when appealing the decisions of state agencies, and to move venue from Franklin Circuit Court to the Circuit Courts of the counties in which events underlying the enforcement actions occurred.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB515/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB515.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1096868,"bill_number":"HB497","title":"AN ACT relating to physician assistants.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.011 to include physician assistants in the definition of \"qualified mental health professional.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 165)","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB497/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB497.htm","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1096871,"bill_number":"SB207","title":"AN ACT relating to causes of actions for building code violations.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.130 to allow a court award under KRS Chapter 198B or the Uniform Building Code to include attorney's fees if a certificate of occupancy has not been issued.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB207/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB207.htm","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1096872,"bill_number":"HB533","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 411.200 to make gender neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB533/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB533.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1096874,"bill_number":"SR236","title":"Recognize Apartment Association of Kentucky Legislative Day on March 7, 2018.","description":"Recognize Apartment Association of Kentucky Legislative Day on March 7, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR236/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR236.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1096875,"bill_number":"HB516","title":"AN ACT relating to operating a motor vehicle.","description":"Amend KRS 189.990 to increase penalties for the violation of KRS 189.292 and 189.294; provide that for a first offense a person may attend State Traffic school in lieu of paying a fine.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB516/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB516.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":1096877,"bill_number":"HB480","title":"AN ACT related to financial institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 286.1-440 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB480/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB480.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1096879,"bill_number":"HB501","title":"AN ACT relating to outdoor advertising.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 177.830 to 177.890 to permit a local government to allow advertising devices to be placed on any side of a building located in an urban area under its jurisdiction; establish exemptions; amend KRS 177.841,177.860, and 177.863 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB501/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB501.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":1096880,"bill_number":"HB495","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB495/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB495.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1096882,"bill_number":"HB496","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB496/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB496.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1096883,"bill_number":"HB502","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,\" \"bump stocks,\" 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; and to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transfer of a bump stock; 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 new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon and to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; 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, 2019; repeal KRS 65.870; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB502/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB502.htm","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1096884,"bill_number":"HB488","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to define \"vegetation maintenance\" and \"property owner\"; require notice to property owner before an electric utility conducts vegetation maintenance in the right-of-way; require written consent for removing more than 25 percent of tree canopy; allow for a temporary cessation of work if property owner objects to vegetation maintenance; prescribe time frames for notice and response; establish standards for vegetation maintenance; and require a customer education plan for vegetation maintenance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB488/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB488.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1096885,"bill_number":"HJR193","title":"Direct the placement of honorary roadside signs for Major League Baseball Player and Butler, Kentucky, native Nate Jones.","description":"Direct the placement of honorary roadside signs for Major League Baseball Player and Butler, Kentucky, native Nate Jones.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-26","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR193/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR193.htm","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1097631,"bill_number":"HB596","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB596/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB596.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097632,"bill_number":"SJR239","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 3174 in Pike County in honor and memory of James Hamilton.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 3174 in Pike County in honor and memory of James Hamilton.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR239/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR239.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1097633,"bill_number":"HB555","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of surgical assistants.","description":"Amend KRS 311.878 to update certifying bodies; create a new section of KRS 311.864 to 311.890 to provide for temporary certification and the cancellation of temporary certification; repeal KRS 311.882.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB555/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB555.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1097634,"bill_number":"HB556","title":"AN ACT relating to property valuation administrators' offices and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 to increase state real property tax rate by 2.6 cents per $100 of assessed valuation; amend KRS 132.590 to require a special purpose governmental entity to pay to the PVA for use of the property assessment and create the PVA compensation fund; amend KRS 132.200 to include the receipts from unmined coal in the special purpose governmental entity fee; amend KRS 132.645 to conform; repeal KRS 132.635; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB556/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB556.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1097635,"bill_number":"SJR241","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 3414 in Pike County as the \"William Blaine Burke Memorial Highway.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 3414 in Pike County as the \"William Blaine Burke Memorial Highway.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR241/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR241.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1097637,"bill_number":"HB597","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB597/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB597.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097638,"bill_number":"HB545","title":"Feb 28-WITHDRAWN","description":"Feb 28-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB545/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB545.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1097639,"bill_number":"HB585","title":"AN ACT relating to tax expenditures and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 243.720 eliminate the reduced rate on low-volume distilled spirits and malt beverages; amend KRS 243.884 to equalize the tax rate among all alcoholic beverage taxes and impose the tax on sales made by a small farm winery or wholesaler of wine produced by a small farm winery; amend KRS 171.396 to lower the certified rehabilitation credit cap to $4 million; amend KRS 141.010 to sunset the domestic production activities deduction, to impose income tax on 50% of any dividend income classified as a patronage dividend, to include in net income any dividends-paid deduction of a real estate investment trust, and define the term \"credit union\"; amend KRS 141.040 to impose income tax on credit unions at reduced income tax rate bracket levels; amend KRS 243.720 to conform; amend KRS 141.422 to reduce the annual biodiesel and renewable diesel tax credit cap to $5 million, the annual cellulosic ethanol tax credit cap to $2.5 million, and the annual ethanol tax credit cap to $2.5 million; amend KRS 141.423 to reduce the amount certified as a tax credit to 50 cents per gallon of biodiesel produced; amend KRS 141.4242 to reduce the amount certified as a tax credit to 50 cents per gallon of ethanol produced; amend KRS 141.4244 to reduce the amount certified as a tax credit to 50 cents per gallon of cellulosic ethanol produced; amend KRS 141.389 to sunset the distilled spirits tax credit; amend KRS 154.32-070 to provide that 100% of the tax liability may be offset with the tax credit if the economic development project is within an enhanced incentive county, and 75% of the tax liability may be offset by the tax credit if the economic development project is outside an enhanced incentive county; amend KRS 141.385 and 141.386 to sunset the tax credits; amend KRS 141.390 to allow 40% of the installed cost of recycling equipment to qualify for the tax credit; amend KRS 138.270 to set the allowance for collecting and reporting the tax at 2%; amend KRS 141.0401 to apply the tax to personal service corporations; amend KRS 141.206 to conform; amend KRS 132.020 to set the state property tax rate for real property at 12.7 cents upon each $100 of assessed value, to increase the 4% ceiling on revenues to 5%, and to increase the rates for certain tangible personal property; amend KRS 139.010 to include the amount charged for labor or services rendered in installing or applying the tangible personal property sold; amend KRS 139.470 to include in gross receipts the sale of a semi-trailer and trailer; amend KRS 139.480 to include, within the definition of retail sale, locomotives or rolling stock, certain agricultural items, property certified as a pollution control facility, and aircraft, repair, and replacement parts therefor, and supplies; amend KRS 139.531 to include the sale of certain horses; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 139.483; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB585/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB585.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1097640,"bill_number":"HB574","title":"AN ACT relating to homeschools.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to require parents of homeschool students to submit an affidavit attesting a homeschool student received 1,062 hours of instruction and a portfolio of student work to the Kentucky Department of Education annually; require the Kentucky Department of Education to review the portfolio to determine whether the student has achieved adequate academic growth; require implementation of a remediation plan if a student has not achieved adequate academic growth; establish an administrative procedure for terminating a student’s enrollment in a homeschool if the student has not achieved adequate academic growth after 24 months on the remediation plan; prohibit the enrollment of a habitual truant in a homeschool without approval of written curricula by the Kentucky Department of Education; permit the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate necessary regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB574/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB574.htm","sponsor":"Chris Harris"},
{"bill_id":1097642,"bill_number":"HB581","title":"AN ACT relating to area development districts.","description":"Amend KRS 147A.004 to establish a formula for distribution of funds through the Joint Funding Administration Program; amend KRS 147A.050 to require the Interim Joint Committee on Local Government to realign the 15 area development districts into no more than 12 area development districts no later than July 1, 2020, based on both population and land mass and to continually realign those districts as new population projections are made by the Kentucky State Data Center.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB581/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB581.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1097643,"bill_number":"SB209","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.392 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB209/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB209.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1097644,"bill_number":"HB546","title":"AN ACT relating to utility franchises.","description":"Amend KRS 96.010 to allow cities to deny utility franchisees the ability to recover from ratepayers the franchise fee by adding a fee or surcharge to the bill.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB546/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB546.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1097646,"bill_number":"HB608","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB608/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB608.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1097647,"bill_number":"HB566","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.170 and 83A.175 to include references to KRS 83A.045.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB566/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB566.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1097648,"bill_number":"SB212","title":"AN ACT relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.040, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB212/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB212.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1097650,"bill_number":"HB604","title":"AN ACT relating to developing trauma-informed schools.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each school to employ at least one mental health professional for every 1,500 students; require the department of education of make available a toolkit to assist school districts in developing a trauma-informed approach in their schools; define \"mental health professional\" and \"trauma-informed approach\"; require each local board of education to develop a plan for implementing a trauma-informed approach in its schools by the 2020-2021 school year.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB604/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB604.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":1097651,"bill_number":"HB539","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to establish risk control mechanisms that shall be implemented by the board of trustees for the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) if funding for retirement benefits applying to members hired on or after July 1, 2018, falls below 95%; amend KRS 161.155 to limit the amount of unused sick leave that may be used to calculate retirement benefits to the number of days accrued as of June 30, 2018; amend KRS 161.540 to increase the employee contribution rate for pensions to 10% for new members of TRS; amend KRS 161.550 to limit state appropriations to fund benefits for new TRS members to 6% of payroll, but require the General Assembly to pay the full actuarially required contribution rate (ARC) for the TRS for all fiscal years occurring on or after July 1, 2018; amend KRS 161.600 to require new TRS members participating on or after July 1, 2018, to attain an age and years of service that total at least 85 to qualify for unreduced retirement benefits or that total no less than 70 to qualify for reduced retirement benefits; make technical and conforming amendments to KRS 161.220, 161.420, 161.600, 161.620, and 161.623; create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to provide that the administration of the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) shall be transferred from the Kentucky Retirement System (KRS) board of trustees to the CERS board of trustees established on July 1, 2018; allow the new CERS board to contract with KRS for administration of benefits, investments, or other services as needed for a period not to exceed four years; create new sections of KRS 78.510 to 78.852, including new provisions to permit nonhazardous members who began participating on or after January 1, 2014, to make a one-time irrevocable election to transfer from the hybrid cash balance plan into the defined benefit tier for members who began participating on or after July 1, 2008, but limit establish risk controls mechanisms for this tier; amend KRS 78.510, 78.530, 78.535, 78.540, 78.610, 78.615, 78.616, 78.625, 78.630, 78.640, 78.650, 78.652, 78,790, 78.852, and 78.550 to establish separate statutory provisions governing administration, benefits, and investments of the County Employees Retirement System; establish a 9-member CERS board composed of 3 elected members, and 6 individuals appointed by the Kentucky League of Cities, the Kentucky Association of Counties, or the Kentucky School Boards Association who must have 10 years of \"investment experience\" or \"retirement experience\" as defined by the bill; specify investment, reporting, and transparency requirements; amend KRS 6.350, 7A.255, 16.505, 16.555, 16.576, 16.577, 16.583, 16.582, 18A.205, 61.510, 61.522, 61.535, 61.540, 61.545, 61.550, 61.552, 61.5525, 61.555, 61.559, 61.565, 61.590, 61.592, 61.595, 61.597, 61.598, 61.600, 61.607, 61.621, 61.623, 61.625, 61.630, 61.637, 61.650, 61.652, 61.660, 61.665, 61.670, 61.675, 61.680, 61.690, 61.691, 61.701, 61.702, 61.705, 70.292, 70.293, 95.022, 95.290, 161.155, and 61.675 to conform; amend KRS 61.645 to remove CERS elected and appointed representation on the KRS board; amend KRS 7A.250 to place CERS under the jurisdiction of the Public Pension Oversight Board; amend KRS 18A.225 to allow CERS retirees to participate in the Kentucky Employees Health Plan; repeal KRS 78.533, 78.534, 78.532, 78.542, 78.545, and 212.434; provide that decisions made by the KRS board on behalf of CERS shall stand and shall not be reversed except as provided by KRS 78.510 to 78.852; provide that the three elected CERS trustees serving on the KRS board prior to July 1, 2017, shall serve as the elected trustees on the new CERS board; provide that no provision of this Act shall increase or decrease benefits to members or retired members of KRS or CERS; EMERGENCY, effective July 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB539/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB539.htm","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1097654,"bill_number":"HB599","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.040 to lower the corporation income tax rate brackets effective January 1, 2019; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 141.020 to lower the individual income tax rate brackets effective January 1, 2019, and to eliminate the personal credit for the taxpayer, spouse, and dependents; amend KRS 139.200 to increase the sales and use tax rate to eight percent effective October 1, 2018; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 132.020 to eliminate the reduced rate on personal aircraft for property assessed; amend KRS 139.480 to sunset the exemptions for tombstones and other memorial grave markers and machinery used for recycling purposes effective July 1, 2018; amend KRS 139.531 to sunset the exemption for sales of horses less than two years of age effective July 1, 2018; amend KRS 139.538 to suspend the refundable credit until July 1, 2020, for the motion picture production industry and require reporting; create a new section in KRS Chapter 148 to suspend all applications for the film industry credit until July 1, 2020, and require reporting; amend KRS 148.8531 to suspend all applications until July 1, 2020, for tourism development projects and require reporting; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 141.010 to change the pension income exclusion threshold and to include in adjusted gross income 50 percent of certain gains on the sale of a taxpayer's principal residence; amend KRS 141.390 to suspend until January 1, 2021, the income tax credit for recycling and composting equipment and require reporting; create a new section of KRS 171.396 to 171.397 to suspend applications until July 1, 2020, for certified rehabilitation projects and require reporting; amend KRS 243.886 to sunset the allowance for collecting and reporting certain alcohol beverage taxes effective July 1, 2018; amend KRS 140.210 to sunset the discount on certain inheritance tax payments for dates of death occurring on or after July 1, 2018; amend KRS 141.385 to suspend until January 1, 2021, the railroad maintenance tax credit and require reporting; amend KRS 141.386 to suspend until January 1, 2021, the railroad expansion tax credit and require reporting; amend KRS 143.010 and 143.025 to include transportation expense in the gross value of coal and natural resources severed or processed beginning July 1, 2018; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 131.190 to exempt certain data provided to the Legislative Research Commission from the confidentiality standards applied to most tax return data; amend various sections to conform; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB599/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB599.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1097655,"bill_number":"HB563","title":"AN ACT relating to highways.","description":"Amend KRS 189.222 to extend to county roads the current allowance for state highways as roads where trucks carrying agricultural products, livestock, and forest products may operate at weights up to 80,000 pounds, subject to certain restrictions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB563/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB563.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1097656,"bill_number":"HB564","title":"AN ACT relating to minimum staff-to-child ratios for family child-care homes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to permit family child-care homes to group children birth to 24 months of age and children 12 to 36 months of age together in a defined area unique to the group; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for staff-to-child ratios based on the youngest child in the group.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB564/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB564.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1097657,"bill_number":"HB549","title":"AN ACT relating to preserving families that include a parent who is blind.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 relating to parents or prospective parents with blindness; define terms; establish rights of parents or prospective parents with blindness.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB549/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB549.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1097659,"bill_number":"SB211","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 and 148.522 to abolish the Kentucky Sports Authority and the Office of Creative Services in the Tourism Arts and Heritage Cabinet; confirm Executive Order 2017-732.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 124)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB211/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB211.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1097660,"bill_number":"HB573","title":"AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing based on the needs of the residents; exempt intermediate-care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, institutions for the treatment of mental illnesses, personal care homes, and family care homes from the minimum staffing requirements; create a 17-member board to review staffing requirements on an annual basis; establish a civil fine of no more than $1,000 for each day that the staffing requirements are not maintained.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Health and Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB573/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB573.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":1097661,"bill_number":"SR245","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joe Eddie Hunt.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joe Eddie Hunt.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR245/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR245.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1097662,"bill_number":"HB577","title":"AN ACT relating to leaves of absence.","description":"Amend KRS 161.770 to specify that a board of education must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and any other applicable federal law in placing a teacher or superintendent on leave due to a physical or mental disability; prohibit a board from requesting unnecessary medical information or disclosing any medical information.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB577/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB577.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1097664,"bill_number":"HB590","title":"AN ACT relating to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Amend KRS 161.048 to require 6 or more years of honorable service for a veteran of the Armed Forces to receive certification through the Education Professional Standards Board's alternative certification program; amend KRS 161.155 to allow the transfer of sick leave for a school district employee who changes employment to the Education Professional Standards Board.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB590/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB590.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097665,"bill_number":"HB575","title":"AN ACT designating the Kentucky Spring Seat Saddle as the official saddle of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the Kentucky Spring Seat Saddle as the official saddle of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB575/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB575.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1097666,"bill_number":"HB605","title":"AN ACT relating to vision testing for motor vehicle operators.","description":"Amend KRS 186.577 to require vision testing for operator's license renewal; allow an applicant to be exempt from visual acuity and visual field testing at the time of application if he or she submits a vision testing form completed by a vision specialist, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, or licensed physician; establish criteria for exemption; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement; permit the Transportation Cabinet to develop a system for electronic transmission of driver vision testing forms; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB605/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB605.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1097667,"bill_number":"HB544","title":"AN ACT relating to extreme risk protective orders.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protective orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protective order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB544/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB544.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1097668,"bill_number":"HB543","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensing of private investigators.","description":"Amend KRS 329A.070 to delete an individual conducting an investigation on their own behalf from the list of those exempted from licensure requirements; add an employee of a private business conducting an internal investigation to the list; require an employee of a private investigator or a private investigating firm to be registered with the board; delete 240 hours per year maximum of supervised work.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB543/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB543.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1097670,"bill_number":"HB567","title":"AN ACT relating to educational programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to allow an accredited college or university to conduct alcoholic beverage sampling as a part of an educational program; exempt the educational program from sampling license requirements; define \"educational program\"; prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in connection with an educational program; require the college or university to include the educational program as part of an established curriculum emphasizing areas such as business and finance, hospitality, tourism and event management, or other aspects of alcoholic beverages; direct the curriculum to clearly state which classes include the sampling of alcoholic beverages; set handling, storage, and reporting requirements for alcoholic beverages; require STAR training for educational program instructors who serve or dispense alcoholic beverages for sampling; limit sampling to students or other persons who are 21 or older on the first day of a sampling class; set daily per-person sampling limits for distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages; require an educational program to purchase all of its alcoholic beverages from a quota retail package licensee; state that an alcoholic beverage license shall not be required to conduct sampling through an educational program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB567/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB567.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1097672,"bill_number":"HR205","title":"Recognize Apartment Association of Kentucky Legislative Day on March 7, 2018.","description":"Recognize Apartment Association of Kentucky Legislative Day on March 7, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR205/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR205.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1097673,"bill_number":"HB557","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 56.440 to define \"headquarters,\" \"nonretail service and technology project,\" and \"nonretail service and technology entity\"; amend KRS 56.510, relating to state lands and buildings to expand eligible projects from industrial projects to include headquarters and nonretail service and technology projects; include eligibility requirements to create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define how skills training credits may be applied to income tax obligations; amend KRS 144.0205 to conform; amend KRS 148.546 and 148.8591 to allow online reporting from Tourism, Arts and Heritage to the LRC in lieu of a physical report; amend KRS 154.10-050 to remove requirement that cabinet secretary create and submit an annual strategic plan for economic development; create a new section of KRS 154.12-2084 to 154.12-2089 to sunset current investment credits; amend KRS 154.12-100 to change reporting requirements and include posting of annual report required by KRS 154.12-2035; amend KRS 154.12-204 to include new definitions relating to the skills training investment credit; amend KRS 154.12-205 to substitute the phrase \"qualified company\" for \"business and industry\"; amend KRS 154.12-206 to substitute the phrase \"approved companies\" for \"business and industry\"; amend KRS 154.12-207 to provide additional details about skills training investment and grant-in-aid credit qualifications; amend KRS 154.12-208 to allow the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation to submit annual report on the cabinet's Web page instead of via paper to LRC; amend KRS 154.12-278 to allow reporting obligations of Kentucky Innovation Act on the cabinet Web page instead of paper copy to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.12-310 to remove satellite offices and specify the number of affiliate centers; amend KRS 154.12-2035 to allow posting of annual report to the cabinet's Web page instead of a physical copy to the Governor and LRC; rename the small business investment credit as the Kentucky small business tax credit; amend KRS 154.20-150 to allow annual reporting by Web page instead of by physical copy to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.20-170 to remove reference to targeted industrial sector; amend KRS 154.20-230 to change definition of \"qualified activity\"; amend KRS 154.20-234 to change elements of qualified investment and authorize promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 154.20-238 to increase allowable time for investment; amend KRS 154.27-050 to allow posting of annual report to the cabinet Web site instead of submitting it to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.30-010 to change investment criteria and refine definitions; create a new section of Subchapter 27 of KRS Chapter 154 to sunset incentives allowed by KRS 154.27-010 to KRS 154.27-100; amend KRS 154.30-070 to alter requirements of tax incentive agreement; amend KRS 154.30-080 to allow cancellation of tax incentive agreements and add definitions; amend KRS 154.31-030 to allow annual reporting by post to the cabinet Web page; amend KRS 154.32-010 to include new definitions; amend KRS 154.32-020 to expand the list of companies eligible for incentives; amend KRS 154.60-010 and KRS 154.60-020 to replace term \"Division of Small Business\" with \"Office of Entrepreneurship\"; amend KRS 154.60-020 to extend time period for credit-related activity; repeal KRS 141.430 relating to income tax credit calculations; repeal KRS 154.10-100 relating to information transfer network; repeal KRS 154.10-120 relating to preparation of the strategic plan for economic development; repeal KRS 154.10-125 relating to content of the strategic economic development plan; repeal KRS 154.10-140 relating to performance benchmarks; repeal KRS 154.30-052 relating to signature project loan program requirements; repeal KRS 154.48-010 containing definitions for KRS 154.48-010 to 154.48-035; repeal KRS 154.48-015 expressing the findings of the General Assembly; repeal KRS154.48-020 relating to administrative regulations and open meetings; repeal KRS 154.48-025 to 154.48-030, and 154.48.035 establishing the Kentucky Environmental Stewardship Act; repeal KRS 224.01-020 relating to the funding for cleaning agricultural warehousing sites.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 199)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB557/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB557.htm","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1097674,"bill_number":"SB219","title":"AN ACT relating to the administration of justice.","description":"Amend KRS 21A.030 to make gender-neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB219/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB219.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1097675,"bill_number":"HB537","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative communications.","description":"Amend KRS 7.105 to require the Legislative Research Commission to email electronic versions of the \"final executive action\" issue of the Legislative Record and the interim Legislative Record instead of mailing hard copies; allow the Commission to mail hard copies upon written request.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB537/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB537.htm","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1097676,"bill_number":"HB600","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal justice and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 17 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish the child abuse offender registry as funding becomes available; limit the registry to child abuse offenders who are convicted under KRS Chapter 507, 507A, 508, 509, or 530, excluding KRS 530.050, or KRS 510.140, 510.150, or 529.110, and whose victim was a minor under the age of 18; create the offender registry funds; amend KRS 431.073 and 431.078 to provide that a portion of expungement fees be deposited in the offender registry fund; amend KRS 42.320 to provide that 5% of court costs shall be paid to the Department of Kentucky State Police to be used for the forensic laboratories; provide that this Act shall be cited as Sophie’s and Kylie Jo’s Law; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB600/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB600.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1097678,"bill_number":"HB587","title":"AN ACT relating to uninsured motor vehicle coverage.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 20 of KRS Chapter 304 to require, notwithstanding Section 2 of this Act, all automobile liability insurance policies to provide coverage to the insured for bodily injury and property damage caused by uninsured motor vehicles at limits set forth KRS 304.39-110 at no additional cost; provide that Section 1 of the Act expires on December 31, 2020; amend KRS 304.20-020 to require all automobile liability insurance policies to provide coverage to the insured for property damage caused by uninsured motor vehicles at limits set forth in KRS 304.39-110 unless rejected by the insured; make technical corrections; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB587/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB587.htm","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1097679,"bill_number":"HB572","title":"AN ACT relating to the Louisville Arena.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to define terms; establish the Louisville Arena Authority, Inc.; subject the authority to the Kentucky Model Procurement Code and open records and meetings requirements; subject board members and officers to the Executive Branch Code of Ethics; provide membership requirements and organizational requirements; provide for the appointment of the chair and functions of the authority; direct the use of revenues; require an annual audit; amend KRS 12.020 to abolish the Division of the Louisville Arena within Kentucky State Fair Board; establish the Louisville Arena in the Tourism Arts and Heritage Cabinet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB572/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB572.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1097681,"bill_number":"HB554","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency.","description":"Establish a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that, at each school without a school resource or security officer, the local board shall implement an emergency response team; establish requirements for members of an emergency response team; require a local board of education to adopt policies and procedures for an emergency response team; provide some civil liability protections to the local board and emergency response team members; limit applicability of the section; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish a process for certifying instructors in providing school safety training; establish minimum requirements of the process; require the department to develop curriculum and requirements for school safety certification trainings, which may be provided by certified trainers; require completion of a psychological suitability screening for certification applicants; allow certifications in school safety to be valid for one year; establish certification renewal requirements; allow the department to establish a fee for certifications; allow the department to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 527.070 to include members of a school's emergency response team among these permitted to carry firearms on school grounds pursuant to the written policies and authorization of the local board of education; declare an EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB554/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB554.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1097682,"bill_number":"HB547","title":"AN ACT relating to employer contributions rates for employers participating in the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.565 to set the employer contribution rates for the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System for the 2018-2020 biennium at the levels payable in fiscal year 2017-2018; require the board of trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems to amend employer rates payable on or after July 1, 2018, accordingly; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB547/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB547.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1097683,"bill_number":"HB559","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency service and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7621 to remove the Lifeline service charge from the definition of CMRS service charges; remove Lifeline providers from the definition of \"prepaid wireless telecommunications service\"; amend KRS 65.7627 to remove the references to the Lifeline service charge being deposited into the CMRS fund; amend KRS 65.7630 to remove the requirement that CMRS providers include the number of Lifeline customers they serve each month in their annual report to the 911 Services Board; remove Lifeline end users from the definition of \"active CMRS connection\"; amend KRS 65.7636 to specify that the Federal Communications Commission can deem a CMRS provider a Lifeline provider; delete all language relating to the levying, collection, and remittance of a Lifeline provider service charge; specify that Lifeline providers shall not be liable for the postpaid or prepaid CMRS service charge; amend KRS 139.470 to remove the Lifeline service charge sales tax exemption; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB559/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB559.htm","sponsor":"Brian Linder"},
{"bill_id":1097684,"bill_number":"SB213","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue.","description":"Amend KRS 139.660 to ensure gender neutrality.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB213/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB213.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1097686,"bill_number":"HCR200","title":"Create a Task Force on Sexual Harassment to study and develop policies to address the issue of sexual harassment.","description":"Create a Task Force on Sexual Harassment to study and develop policies to address the issue of sexual harassment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR200/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR200.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1097687,"bill_number":"HB542","title":"AN ACT relating to coal severance revenues.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 42 to distribute 100 percent of 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, 164.7890, and 164.7891 to conform; repeal KRS 42.490.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB542/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB542.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":1097688,"bill_number":"HB568","title":"AN ACT relating to special license plates and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 creating the Kentucky Community and Technical College System special license plate fund; amend KRS 186.162 to establish a Kentucky Community and Technical College System special license plate; set fees; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of plates to be perpetually produced; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB568/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB568.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1097689,"bill_number":"HB552","title":"AN ACT relating to adult education.","description":"Repeal various sections of KRS Chapter 164, reenact them as the sections of KRS Chapter 151B, and amend to move the Kentucky Adult Education Program and the Foundation for Adult Education from the Council on Postsecondary Education to the Department of Workforce Investment in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; rename the Kentucky Adult Education Program as the Office of Adult Education; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; amend KRS 18A.115 to exempt transferred employees from classified service; amend KRS 161.220 to allow transferred employees currently participating in KTRS to continue in KTRS.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB552/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB552.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1097692,"bill_number":"HB588","title":"AN ACT relating to career readiness.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to identify as career ready a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps student who has successfully earned a three-year or four-year certificate of training and has obtained a minimum score of 36 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB588/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB588.htm","sponsor":"Linda Belcher"},
{"bill_id":1097693,"bill_number":"HB569","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.200 to increase the sales tax rate to seven percent effective October 1, 2018; amend KRS 139.310 to increase the use tax rate to seven percent effective October 1, 2018, amend KRS 139.470 to eliminate exemptions for sales made through vending machines, sales to state and local government agencies, sales of residential sewer services, sales of water and fuel for residential uses, sales to out-of-state state agencies, organizations or institutions exempt form sales and use tax in its state of residence, sales of industrial supplies and industrial tools used in manufacturing or industrial processing, the Kentucky River Authority water use fee, sales of water used in raising equine, amounts received from a tobacco buydown, sales of semi-trailers and trailers, and the first $50,000 in sales of admissions to county fairs; amend KRS 139.471 to provide that certain contracts and lease or rental agreements entered into on or before the effective date of this Act shall be excluded from the rate increases; amend KRS 139.472 to eliminate exemptions for colostomy, urostomy, or ileostomy supplies, prosthetic devices, mobility enhancing equipment, and durable medical equipment; amend KRS 139.531 to eliminate exemption for breeding stock and horses less than two years of age; amend KRS 139.010, 132.200, 138.358, 139.340, 139.778, 139.990, 143A.030, 148.546, 154.12-223, 154.27-070, 154.27-100, 154.27-110, 154.27-120, and 154.27-130 to conform; repeal KRS 139.480, 139.482, 139.483, 139.484, 139.495, 139.496, 139.497, 139.505, 139.518, 139.533, 139.534, 139.537, and 139.538; EFFECTIVE October 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB569/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB569.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":1097694,"bill_number":"HB594","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB594/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB594.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097695,"bill_number":"HB615","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.101 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB615/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB615.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1097696,"bill_number":"HB607","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB607/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB607.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1097698,"bill_number":"HB614","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.110 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB614/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB614.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1097699,"bill_number":"HB602","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and firearms accessories and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit the sale or transfer of bump stock devices, trigger cranks, and other items designed to accelerate the rate of fire without turning a firearm into a fully automatic firearm; create penalties; provide for the destruction of the items after a conviction and any appeals; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB602/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB602.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":1097700,"bill_number":"HB553","title":"Mar 08-WITHDRAWN","description":"Mar 08-WITHDRAWN","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB553/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB553.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":1097701,"bill_number":"HB582","title":"AN ACT relating to health insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-254 and 304.17A-527 to prohibit insurers from reducing a negotiated rate for evaluation and management services solely because the provider also billed for other services on the same day; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to prohibit an insurer from denying coverage for emergency services in a concurrent or retrospective review based on the final diagnosis of the insured; establish time frame for prior authorization of poststabilization treatment; allow for a hospital providing emergency services to be paid at a negotiated rate; repeal KRS 304.17A-640, 304.17A-641, and 304.17A-649; amend KRS 18A.225 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB582/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB582.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1097705,"bill_number":"HR204","title":"Recognize the Kentucky Community and Technical College System's 20th anniversary.","description":"Recognize the Kentucky Community and Technical College System's 20th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR204/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR204.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097706,"bill_number":"HB593","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB593/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB593.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097707,"bill_number":"SB218","title":"AN ACT relating to health and welfare.","description":"Amend KRS 199.900 to make a technical change.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB218/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB218.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1097708,"bill_number":"SB208","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB208/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB208.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1097710,"bill_number":"HB540","title":"AN ACT relating to a new tax credit.","description":"Establish a new subchapter under KRS Chapter 154 and create new sections thereof to allow the earn and learn tax credit in an amount up to 25% of the costs incurred by an approved company for tuition or other educational expenses paid on behalf of a qualified employee, not to exceed $1,500 and up to 50% of those costs incurred for a qualified employee in recovery, not to exceed $2,000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow the tax credit against the income taxes and the limited liability entity tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, 2023; amend various sections to require reporting of data to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB540/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB540.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1097711,"bill_number":"HB611","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.","description":"Amend KRS 164.296 to allow comprehensive public universities to offer programs of a vocational-technical-occupational nature below the associate degree level in the top five high-demand sectors with the approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education; establish program approval requirements; require programs to be reviewed after three years of implementation; forbid any public institution of higher education from offering new programs of a vocational-technical-occupational nature below the associate level outside of the top five high-demand sectors without review by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System board of regents and the approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB611/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB611.htm","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1097712,"bill_number":"HB589","title":"AN ACT relating to affordable housing for veterans and senior citizens.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish the Kentucky affordable housing credit, which applies to the income and insurance taxes, in an amount related to the amount of federal low-income housing tax credit; limit the total amount of all credits awarded during any year to the greater of 50 percent of the federal low-income housing tax credits awarded on qualified projects or $3,500,000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow the income tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the income tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 136 to order the insurance tax credits; amend various statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB589/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB589.htm","sponsor":"Rob Rothenburger"},
{"bill_id":1097713,"bill_number":"SB215","title":"AN ACT relating to natural resources.","description":"Amend KRS 351.109 to make gender-neutral and grammatical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB215/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB215.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1097715,"bill_number":"HR202","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ruth Ann Nethery.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ruth Ann Nethery.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR202/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR202.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1097717,"bill_number":"HB562","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB562/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB562.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1097718,"bill_number":"HB592","title":"AN ACT relating to public agencies.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 200)","last_action_date":"2018-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB592/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB592.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097719,"bill_number":"HB561","title":"AN ACT relating to the appointment of counsel.","description":"Amend KRS 620.100 to make the fee for court-appointed counsel in dependency, neglect, and abuse cases the same in District Court as in Family Court.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB561/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB561.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1097720,"bill_number":"HB548","title":"AN ACT relating to election districts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Legislative Advisory Reapportionment and Redistricting Commission; require each of the eleven members to be appointed with at least one member appointed from each of Kentucky's congressional districts; prior to appointment, members must meet certain conditions; members are to be appointed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, minority leadership in the House, minority leadership in the Senate, and the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court or his or her designee; set terms of office at four years; require appointments to be made by July 1, 2020, and thereafter for each subsequent decennial year; 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 Legislative Research Commission, which shall refer the proposals to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; allow the General Assembly to enact or reject the proposals, but not alter or amend them; provide that if the General Assembly does not enact the proposals, the proposals are to return to the commission with recommendations; a new set of proposals must be submitted to the General Assembly for consideration; the commission must submit proposals to the General Assembly at least three times before the General Assembly is able to enact its own reapportionment and redistricting legislation without the commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB548/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB548.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1097722,"bill_number":"SJR240","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Jack Adkins on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Jack Adkins on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR240/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR240.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":1097723,"bill_number":"HB570","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.12-230 to replace \"person\" with \"insurer\"; prohibit third-party claims against a casualty insurer; amend KRS 304.45.110 to conform; repeal KRS 304.12-220, relating to the definition of \"person.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB570/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB570.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1097724,"bill_number":"HB601","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of human remains.","description":"Amend KRS 367.93117 to authorize a religious society to control the disposition of a decedent's body and make funeral, burial, and ceremonial arrangements if an individual in the next degree of kinship is not available.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB601/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB601.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1097725,"bill_number":"HB609","title":"AN ACT relating to the funding of transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 138.210 to set the average wholesale floor price at $2.90; amend KRS 138.220 to increase the supplemental tax on gasoline and special fuels by increasing the existing rate from five cents per gallon (cpg) on gasoline and two cpg on special fuels to eight and a half cpg for both and setting that as the minimum rate; subject the supplemental tax to annual adjustment; require annual notification to motor fuel dealers of the adjusted rate of supplemental tax for each upcoming fiscal year and annual notification to county clerks of the level of registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to provide a mechanism for annual adjustment of the supplemental motor fuel tax based on changes in the National Highway Construction Cost Index; allow the supplemental tax to increase or decrease no more than 10 percent from one year to the next, subject to the statutory minimum; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish a base fee for hybrid vehicles, hybrid electric plug-in vehicles, and nonhybrid electric vehicles; require the fee to be adjusted with any increase or decrease in the gasoline tax established in KRS 138.228 and Section 3 of the Act; require collection of the fee at the time of motor vehicle registration; require that all fees collected under this section be transferred to the road fund; amend KRS 186.010 to define the terms \"hybrid vehicle,\" \"hybrid electric plug-in vehicle,\" and \"nonhybrid electric vehicle\"; amend KRS 186.018 at increase the fee for a driving history record from three dollars to six dollars; amend KRS 186.040 to eliminate the $30 county clerk fee for motor carrier registrations on vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds; amend KRS 186.050 to increase to state fee for motor vehicle registrations from $11.50 to $22; reference the fees for electric and hybrid vehicles collected under this Act; provide for the $10 late charge for vehicle registrations not renewed within 30 days of expiration; make technical correction; amend KRS 186.162 and 186.240 to conform; amend KRS 186.440, 186.450, and 186.531 to consolidate fees for driver license reinstatement, set reinstatement fee at $100, provide for distribution of funds, and provide for exceptions; amend KRS 281A.150 to increase reinstatement fees for suspended CDLs from $50 to $250; amend KRS 186A.130 and 186A.245 to set the fee for an initial title at $25 and the fee for a duplicate or replacement title at $10 and adjust the distribution of fees between the Cabinet and the county clerk; amend KRS 189.574 to increase to fee for state traffic school from $15 to $50; amend KRS 189.270 to increase fees for various overweight and overdimensional permits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to create the multimodal transportation fund, specify allowable uses for moneys in the fund and appropriate funds for those purposes; EMERGENCY; Sections 1 to 3 of the Act are EFFECTIVE 7/1/18; Sections 4, 5, and 7 to 14 of the Act are EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB609/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB609.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1097728,"bill_number":"HB538","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health screenings for students.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require a mental health screening for students in conjunction with immunizations required for elementary, middle, and high school.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB538/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB538.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1097729,"bill_number":"SB217","title":"AN ACT relating to licensed occupations.","description":"Amend KRS 310.070, 311.591, 311.597, 312.018, and 312.021 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB217/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB217.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1097730,"bill_number":"HB584","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 227.250 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB584/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB584.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1097731,"bill_number":"SR243","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Lee Nally.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Lee Nally.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR243/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR243.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":1097733,"bill_number":"HB536","title":"AN ACT relating to sports wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to require the lottery corporation to institute a sports wagering system; amend KRS 154A.010 to define \"collegiate sports contest,\" \"net sports wagering receipts,\" \"professional sports contest,\" and \"sports wagering\"; amend KRS 154A.030 to prohibit owners of professional sports teams from serving on the board; amend KRS 154A.050 and 154A.060 to include sports wagering; amend 154A.063 to allow the corporation to accept wagers on collegiate and professional sports contests, but to prohibit sports wagers on horse racing; amend KRS 154A.070 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.090 to include sports wagering retailers; amend KRS 154A.110 to prohibit sales of sports wagers to persons under 18 years of age, provide for the allocation of unclaimed sports wager prize money, and restrict owners, coaches, players, and others involved in a sporting contest from placing sports wagers; create new sections of KRS Chapter 154A to permit sports wagering at lottery retailers, horse racing tracks, and simulcast facilities; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations needed to establish and oversee sports wagering and prohibit participants in sporting events from placing wagers on games in which they are participating; create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to establish the sports wagering distribution trust fund and limit uses of the fund to administrative costs and pension system funding; amend KRS 154A.120 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.130 to exempt sports wagering receipts and specify that sports wagering receipts shall be deposited in the sports wagering distribution trust fund; amend KRS 154A.400 and 154A.410 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.420 to include sports wagering and allow the corporation to require a retailer to establish a separate sports wagering electronic funds transfer account, where available; amend KRS 154A.430 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.440 to require retailers to accept sports wagers only at the location listed on their contract; amend KRS 154A.600 and 154A.650 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.990 to establish penalties for selling a sports wager to anyone under 18 years of age, to establish the crime of tampering with the outcome of a sporting event, and prohibit participants from wagering on a sporting event and establish penalties; EFFECTIVE UPON CONTINGENCY: Act takes effect only if the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is repealed by Congress or is rendered void by the United States Supreme Court.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB536/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB536.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1097734,"bill_number":"HB477","title":"AN ACT relating to wooden covered bridges.","description":"Amend KRS 176.400, relating to wooden covered bridges, to require bridge authorities to retain possession, title, and control of wooden bridges they maintain.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB477/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB477.htm","sponsor":"John Sims"},
{"bill_id":1097736,"bill_number":"HB612","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that a vehicle used in a third or subsequent DUI offense may be forfeited to the state.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB612/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB612.htm","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1097737,"bill_number":"HB613","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.045 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB613/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB613.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1097739,"bill_number":"HB580","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish an alcoholic beverages direct shipping license; create application requirements necessary to obtain a direct shipping license; establish shipping requirements for licensees and common carriers; prohibit licensees from shipping to addresses located in dry territories; amend KRS 241.010 to define “consumer,” “direct shipment,\" and “direct shipper”; amend KRS 242.280 to prohibit the receipt of alcoholic beverages in dry territories from a direct shipper; amend KRS 243.030 to establish a direct shipping license fee; amend KRS 243.0305 to allow a distiller to receive purchases over the phone or online; allow a distiller to ship packages to a consumer using a common carrier; amend KRS 243.200 to establish conditions under which a person with a transporter’s license can ship to a consumer; amend KRS 243.355 to allow a distilled spirits and wine storage license to be issued as a primary license or as a supplementary license to the holder of a direct shipping license; amend KRS 244.165 to allow a distiller from another state to ship spirits to a Kentucky resident; amend KRS 242.260 to exclude licensed common carriers from being liable for delivering alcoholic beverages in dry territories; amend KRS 242.270 to exclude licensed common carriers from being liable for delivering alcoholic beverages in dry territories; amend KRS 244.240 to prohibit a direct shipping licensing from being interested in any retailer business; amend KRS 243.130 to allow a distiller to sell souvenir packages at retail over the phone and Internet; amend KRS 243.034 and 243.0341 to conform; repeal KRS 243.886.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB580/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB580.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":1097740,"bill_number":"SB214","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB214/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB214.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1097741,"bill_number":"HB565","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.235, 117.375, 118.015, 118.035, 118.405, 118A.010, 119.005, and 120.005 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB565/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB565.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":1097742,"bill_number":"SR238","title":"Recognize March 7, 2018, as Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol.","description":"Recognize March 7, 2018, as Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR238/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR238.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":1097744,"bill_number":"HB595","title":"AN ACT relating to school districts.","description":"Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for contiguous school districts; require an insolvent district to be merged with a contiguous school district; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB595/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB595.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097745,"bill_number":"HB579","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 117.025 governing the use of electronic poll books; amend KRS 117.375, 118.015, 118A.010, 119.005, and 120.005 to define \"electronic poll book\"; amend KRS 117.187 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB579/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB579.htm","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1097746,"bill_number":"HB606","title":"AN ACT relating to testing for commercial driver's license applicants and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 281A.160 to prescribe fees for retesting for commercial driver's license applicants who have failed a portion of the skills test; require a 48-hour cancellation notice for skills test appointments; set forth consequences of failure to appear at a scheduled test without proper notification; clarify the exemption from testing fees for military personnel applying for a CDL under KRS 281A.165; make technical corrections; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 150)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB606/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB606.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1097747,"bill_number":"HB610","title":"AN ACT relating to harassment.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to provide a process for staff of the Legislative Research Commission to file a complaint for sexual harassment with the Legislative Ethics Commission; create a new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to prohibit a legislator, employee of the legislative branch of state government, legislative agent, or any other person who interacts with legislators and employees of the legislative branch from intentionally engaging in sexual harassment or entering into any agreement except under the provisions of KRS 6.601 to 6.849; create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 to create a task force on sexual harassment; provide for membership and co-chairs; require the task force to meet by September 1, 2018, develop a climate survey for partisan and nonpartisan employees and contractors of the Legislative Research Commission, analyze the data from the survey, and determine future steps; create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 to provide for a process to receive complaints from legislative staff; amend KRS 6.611 to define \"official misconduct\" and \"sexual harassment.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB610/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB610.htm","sponsor":"Linda Belcher"},
{"bill_id":1097748,"bill_number":"HB578","title":"AN ACT relating to licensed occupations.","description":"Amend KRS 314A.105, 315.030, 315.155, and 316.990 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB578/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB578.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1097750,"bill_number":"HB576","title":"AN ACT relating to health insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-580 to prohibit an insurer from denying coverage for emergency services in a concurrent or retrospective review based on the final diagnosis of the insured; establish time frame for prior authorization of poststabilization treatment; allow for a hospital providing emergency services to be paid at a negotiated rate; repeal KRS 304.17A-640, 304.17A-641, and 304.17A-649.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB576/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB576.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":1097751,"bill_number":"SB210","title":"AN ACT relating to possession of a firearm by a felon.","description":"Amend KRS 527.040 to increase the penalties for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon when the feloncommits a crime outside of this section that involves a firearm and the person has a prior conviction under this section.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 123)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB210/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB210.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1097753,"bill_number":"HB550","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.","description":"Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 383.500 to apply the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act on a statewide basis; repeal, reenact, and amend the various sections of KRS 383.500 to 383.715 constituting that Act without substantive change.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB550/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB550.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1097754,"bill_number":"SB216","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.045 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB216/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB216.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1097756,"bill_number":"HB560","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 189.125, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB560/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB560.htm","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1097758,"bill_number":"HB586","title":"AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification.","description":"Amend KRS 161.095 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to extend the validity period of a certificate of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America by one year for each year the member is determined by the board to have been prohibited by military service or training from pursuing an advanced degree or completing professional development required to maintain certification; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application process and develop guidelines for the process by which education or professional development is considered to have been prohibited by military service.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 149)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB586/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB586.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1097759,"bill_number":"HB571","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to abolish the House of Representatives and the Senate and vest all legislative power in ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, and to repeal Sections 30 through 35 of the Constitution of Kentucky, and create a new section to conform.","description":"Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to vest legislative power in ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce; propose to repeal Sections 30 through 35 of the Constitution of Kentucky; create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB571/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB571.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1097760,"bill_number":"HB598","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB598/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB598.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097762,"bill_number":"HB583","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.392 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB583/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB583.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":1097763,"bill_number":"HB541","title":"AN ACT relating to the highly skilled employee tax credit.","description":"Establish Subchapter 13 of KRS Chapter 154 and create new sections thereof to define terms and create a tax credit for residents of the Commonwealth that are employed in high-skill, high-demand industry sector positions in an amount not to exceed $1,500 for each eligible position and a total of $3 million in each fiscal year; create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to allow a nonrefundable, nontransferable tax credit against the individual income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2022, and to require reporting by the department; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend various sections to conform to the reporting requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB541/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB541.htm","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1097764,"bill_number":"SR244","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wiley Herman Elliott.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Wiley Herman Elliott.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR244/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR244.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1097765,"bill_number":"HB558","title":"AN ACT relating to notification of the expiration date of an instruction permit, operator's license, or personal identification card.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to notify holders of operator's licenses, instruction permits, and personal ID cards of the impending expiration of these documents 45 days prior to their expiration; allow notice by electronic or postal mail; allow license, permit, and ID card holders to provide electronic mail addresses for notification or opt out of notification; clarify that nonreceipt of a notice shall not constitute a defense to any offense regarding an expired permit or license.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB558/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB558.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1097766,"bill_number":"HR206","title":"Recognize All Masons Day on February 28, 2018.","description":"Recognize All Masons Day on February 28, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR206/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR206.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1097768,"bill_number":"HR201","title":"Recognize March 3, 2018, as Hearing Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize March 3, 2018, as Hearing Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR201/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR201.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1097769,"bill_number":"HJR203","title":"Designate the Dr. E.H. Shufflebarger Memorial Bridge and the Vernie and Mary Ellen Oakley Memorial Bridge in Carter County; direct the placement of honorary signs for Kelsie May on KY 3 at the intersection of US 23 at the city limits of Louisa in Lawrence County.","description":"Designate the Dr. E.H. Shufflebarger Memorial Bridge and the Vernie and Mary Ellen Oakley Memorial Bridge in Carter County; direct the placement of honorary signs for Kelsie May on KY 3 at the intersection of US 23 at the city limits of Louisa in Lawrence County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR203/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HJR203.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1097770,"bill_number":"HB591","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Confirm Executive Order 2017-496, which reorganizes various offices in the Department of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.017 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB591/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB591.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1097771,"bill_number":"SR237","title":"Honor Central High School.","description":"Honor Central High School.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR237/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR237.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1097773,"bill_number":"HB551","title":"AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties of the trustees and investment managers for the state-administered retirement systems.","description":"Amend KRS 21.540, 61.650, and 161.430 to require the state-administered retirement systems to follow the state Model Procurement Code when contracting for investment management services; amend KRS 61.645 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 161.250 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Teachers' Retirement System; amend KRS 61.990 and 161.990 to provide that a knowing violation of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems and the Teachers' Retirement System shall be a Class D felony.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB551/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB551.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":1097774,"bill_number":"HB603","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB603/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB603.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":1097775,"bill_number":"SR242","title":"Recognize All Mason's Day on February 28, 2018.","description":"Recognize All Mason's Day on February 28, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR242/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR242.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":1098785,"bill_number":"SJR249","title":"Designate Kentucky Route 67 in Greenup County as the Robert W. Carpenter Highway.","description":"Designate Kentucky Route 67 in Greenup County as the Robert W. Carpenter Highway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR249/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SJR249.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1098787,"bill_number":"SB224","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.12-230 to replace \"person\" with \"insurer\"; prohibit third-party claims against a casualty insurer; amend KRS 304.45-110 to conform; repeal KRS 304.12-220, relating to the definition of \"person.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB224/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB224.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1098790,"bill_number":"SB227","title":"AN ACT relating to voter registration.","description":"Amend KRS 116.045 to permit voter preregistration for persons at the minimum age of 16 years; require the Secretary of State to provide assistance and interpretation for preregistration; require the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations to provide for preregistration; amend KRS 116.046 to require county clerks to provide preregistration forms to certain secondary education institutions; amend KRS 116.055 to conform; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB227/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB227.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1098792,"bill_number":"SR248","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Staff Sergeant Abigail R. Milam.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Staff Sergeant Abigail R. Milam.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR248/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR248.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1098794,"bill_number":"SR250","title":"Honor Lydia O'Nan upon being named a Distinguished Finalist at the 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.","description":"Honor Lydia O'Nan upon being named a Distinguished Finalist at the 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR250/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR250.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1098797,"bill_number":"HR210","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Lee Nally.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Lee Nally.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR210/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR210.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1098800,"bill_number":"HR212","title":"Commemorate the 50th wedding anniversary of Johnny Cash and June Carter.","description":"Commemorate the 50th wedding anniversary of Johnny Cash and June Carter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR212/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR212.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":1098804,"bill_number":"SB225","title":"AN ACT relating to financial transactions.","description":"Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create new sections of that subtitle relating to credit; define terms; require a license to make credit access loans; require locations to be physically located in Kentucky with at least one full-time employee; establish qualifications of an applicant for a license to offer credit access loans; require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to periodically review a licensee's compliance with licensure qualifications; establish form requirements for an application to offer credit access loans and a $500 filing fee; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a nonrefundable supervision fee in lieu of other fees; require that licensees maintain an agent in Kentucky for service of process and notify the commissioner in writing at least five days prior to any change in the status of an agent; establish the filing fee for a license and establish requirements for additional materials to accompany the application, including a surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit of $25,000 per location not to exceed $200,000 for a single licensee; allow the commissioner to require background checks at the expense of the applicant; require the commissioner to investigate completed applications for compliance and issue licenses if requirements have been satisfied; require licenses to be conspicuously posted; provide for annual expiration and renewals of licenses upon showing of continued compliance; establish due process procedures for the denial of a license; establish license renewal fee of $500; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a biennial license; prohibit transfer or assignment of a license, and set out requirements for a change of a control of a licensee; require five days' notice to the commissioner of a change in principal place of business, location, or name of a licensee; allow for the collection of certain interest, fees, and charges on a credit access loan and limit the term of each loan to not more than twelve months; limit credit access loan plans to an aggregate principal balance of $1,500, and provide for other specific loan plan terms; allow for the collection of fees after a default by a customer and for returned or dishonored checks; establish requirements for disclosures made by licensees to customers; require licensees to provide customers with a periodic billing statement; establish requirements for recordkeeping by a licensee; prohibit unfair or deceptive acts by a licensee; prohibit customers from having more than one outstanding credit access loan plan and require licensees to inquire about the plan prior to the database becoming fully operational; prohibit licensees from using certain devices or agreements and require licensees to comply with certain state and federal laws; prohibit certain provisions in a credit access loan plan; provide that credit access loan plans made with an unlicensed person are void; exempt credit access loans from certain other statutes; grant authority to commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; grant examination, investigatory, and subpoena powers to the commissioner and remedies for enforcement; require licensees and other persons to pay reasonable examination and investigation costs; allow for written complaints to be submitted to the commissioner and vest exclusive administrative power to investigate complaint with commissioner; allow commissioner to suspend or revoke a license, issue cease and desist orders, order refunds and civil penalties, censure or bar persons from the business of a licensee, and establish due process procedures; allow commissioner authority to enter into consent orders, seek civil penalties and make criminal referrals, and take enforcement action without opportunity for prior hearing in extraordinary circumstances; require licensees to report certain events within 15 days of occurrence; require the filing of an annual report by a licensee and exempt the reports from disclosure or discovery; require the commissioner to prepare an annual report and analysis reflecting the results of operations of licensees; allow the commissioner to license applicants through a multistate licensing system and extend federal and state privileges to information disclosed to the licensing system; establish a database for credit access loan plans and reporting requirements for licensees; establish requirements for operation and use of database and conduct of third-party providers; establish the information a licensee may access in the database and exempt certain reported information from disclosure or discovery; prohibit local government units from regulating or having authority over the business of making credit access loans; make licenses available to certain persons chartered, organized, or licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 286 as of January 1, 2018; establish the name of this subtitle as the \"Kentucky Credit Access Act\"; amend KRS 286.1-011 to specify that the Department of Financial Institutions regulates matters under KRS Chapter 286 and 292.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB225/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB225.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1098806,"bill_number":"SR251","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nancy Miller Hill.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nancy Miller Hill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR251/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR251.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1098809,"bill_number":"SR246","title":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Thomas L. Jackson's life of service to country, community, and the Commonwealth.","description":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Thomas L. Jackson's life of service to country, community, and the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR246/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR246.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1098813,"bill_number":"HR211","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Staff Sergeant Abigail R. Milam.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Staff Sergeant Abigail R. Milam.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR211/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR211.htm","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1098816,"bill_number":"SB226","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement contracts with small businesses located in historically underutilized business zones.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A, relating to state procurement, to incorporate new preference criteria for small businesses located in historically underutilized business zones.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB226/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB226.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1098818,"bill_number":"SR247","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stella Mae Miller Lafferty.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stella Mae Miller Lafferty.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR247/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR247.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1098820,"bill_number":"SB221","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.420 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB221/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB221.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1098822,"bill_number":"SB223","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 154.15-020 to allow the Kentucky Communications Network Authority to leverage future revenues through debt or financing; amend KRS 279.590 to allow two years of continuous maintenance on communications lines to ripen into an easement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 279 to grant the right of apportionment to any utility that has been granted an easement that does not expressly deny the right of apportionment; amend KRS 279.310 to add telephone lines and communication lines to definitions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"reassigned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB223/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB223.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1098826,"bill_number":"SB220","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to reformat definition for \"health benefit plan.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB220/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB220.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1098828,"bill_number":"HCR209","title":"Recognize the suffering and anguish experienced by women and families who learn during pregnancy that their unborn child has a life-limiting condition which could result in the death before or shortly after birth, and the importance of perinatal palliative care and neonatal palliative and hospice care in providing support, information, and education for these women and families.","description":"Recognize the suffering and anguish experienced by women and families who learn during pregnancy that their unborn child has a life-limiting condition which could result in the death before or shortly after birth, and the importance of perinatal palliative care and neonatal palliative and hospice care in providing support, information, and education for these women and families.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-06","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR209/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR209.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1098831,"bill_number":"SB228","title":"AN ACT relating to athlete agents.","description":"Amend KRS 164.6901 to rename KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935 the Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act; amend KRS 164.6903 to revise the definitions of \"athlete agent\" and \"student-athlete\" and to define \"educational institution,\" \"enrolled,\" \"interscholastic sport,\" \"licensed, registered or certified professional,\" \"recruit or solicit,\" and \"sign\"; amend KRS 164.6907 to clarify time period for submitting an application; amend KRS 164.6909 expand the requirements for an athlete agent application form and the registration process; amend KRS 164.6911 clarify reasons for which registration may be denied and the license renewal process; amend KRS 164.6913 to clarify reasons for refusing to issue or to suspend or revoke a registration; create a new section of KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935 to allow the department to issue a temporary license; amend KRS 164.6915 to establish a fee to renew a registration based on registration in another state; amend KRS 164.6917 to specify requirements for an agency contract; amend KRS 164.6919 to specify communication requirements an athlete agent must meet; amend KRS 164.6921 to include parents or guardians of minor student-athletes; amend KRS 164.6923 to require an athlete agent to create records; amend KRS 164.6925 to clarify actions prohibited by athlete agents; amend KRS 164.6929 to allow student-athletes as well as educational institutions to bring action for damages and increase civil penalty from $25,000 to $50,000; amend KRS 164.6933 clarify the interaction of KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935 with regard to federal electronic signatures statutes.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2018-04-27","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts, ch. 205)","last_action_date":"2018-04-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB228/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB228.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1098833,"bill_number":"SB222","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.420 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB222/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB222.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1098836,"bill_number":"HR207","title":"Recognize March 2, 2018, as Read Across America Day.","description":"Recognize March 2, 2018, as Read Across America Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR207/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR207.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1098838,"bill_number":"HR208","title":"Honor Albert Patrick.","description":"Honor Albert Patrick.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR208/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR208.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1098840,"bill_number":"SR252","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Olivia Sue Ford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Olivia Sue Ford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR252/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR252.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1099834,"bill_number":"SR253","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Basil \"B.J.\" Booth Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Basil \"B.J.\" Booth Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR253/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR253.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1099836,"bill_number":"SB236","title":"AN ACT relating to surprise billing.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-500 to define \"facility\" and \"in-network facility\"; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-500 to 304.17A-590 to require health benefit plans to cover certain nonemergency health care services provided by a nonparticipating health care provider to a covered person at an in-network facility at the in-network rate; prohibit nonparticipating health care providers from attempting to collect payment from a covered person for covered services; provide reimbursement criteria for covered services provided by a nonparticipating provider at an in-network facility; amend KRS 304.17A-254 and KRS 304.17A-527 to conform and to require insurers to require any provider contracts with in-network health facilities requires the provider to accept the in-network rate as payment in full; to prohibit balance billing the covered person beyond their in-network cost sharing; amend KRS 304.17A-565 to make technical corrections and to provide that the provisions of the insurance code shall not preempt or supersede other rights or remedies available to covered persons under law; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to add provisions of KRS 304.17A-641 and to require nonparticipating health care providers accept the in-network reimbursement rate for emergency services provided at an in-network facility as payment in full; amend KRS 18A.225 and 304.17B-001 to conform; repeal KRS 304.17A-640, 304.17A-641, and 304.17A-649; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB236/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB236.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1099839,"bill_number":"SB260","title":"AN ACT relating to strengthening the controlled substances collaborative agreement between physicians and advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.042 to add requirements for the Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances (CAPA-CS).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB260/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB260.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1099842,"bill_number":"SB234","title":"AN ACT relating to honey.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 260 to allow for a \"certified Kentucky honey\" product within the Department of Agriculture Kentucky Proud program; establish provisions for a \"certified Kentucky honey\" to be marketed under the Kentucky Department of Agriculture Kentucky Proud label; establish penalties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB234/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB234.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1099843,"bill_number":"SB246","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.50-145 to replace reference to executive director to commissioner of insurance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB246/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB246.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1099846,"bill_number":"SB258","title":"AN ACT relating to human trafficking.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of human trafficking and promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 percent of the sentence has been served.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB258/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB258.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099849,"bill_number":"SR257","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Leon \"Joe\" Hardesty.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joseph Leon \"Joe\" Hardesty.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR257/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR257.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099851,"bill_number":"SB240","title":"AN ACT relating to kidnapping.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to make kidnapping and attempted kidnapping a violent offense with 85% service time.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB240/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB240.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1099853,"bill_number":"SB259","title":"AN ACT relating to independent external review claims.","description":"Amend KRS 205.646 to allow a provider to appeal multiple claims in a single external review; and to allow a single administrative hearing to be held to appeal the final decision of an external review that involved multiple claims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB259/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB259.htm","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1099858,"bill_number":"SB262","title":"AN ACT relating to personal information.","description":"Amend KRS 365.720 to clarify definition of \"personally identifiable information.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB262/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB262.htm","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1099860,"bill_number":"SB244","title":"AN ACT relating to the direct shipment of wine to consumers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish a wine direct shipper license for wine manufacturers, producers, suppliers, importers, wholesalers, and retailers; establish packaging requirements for shipment, require all taxes due to be paid to the Department of Revenue and grant the Department of Revenue audit authority; permit licensees to ship to addresses located in dry and moist territories; amend KRS 243.030 to establish a $100 initial licensing fee and a $50 renewal fee; amend KRS 243.990 to make violation of Section 1 of the Act a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for each subsequent offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB244/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB244.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1099863,"bill_number":"SB255","title":"AN ACT relating to ignition interlock devices.","description":"Amend KRS 186.570 to allow the Transportation Cabinet to address violations related to the issuance of an ignition interlock license and installation of an ignition interlock device and to promulgate administrative regulations to address out-of-state interlock ignition orders for residents and nonresidents; amend KRS 189A.005 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 189.070 to require that persons charged with a violation of KRS 189A.010 which includes aggravating circumstances, or who have refused a breath, blood, or urine test, may only receive day-for-day credit for a valid interlock license after conviction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to allow any person charged with violating KRS 189A.010(1)(a), (b), (e), or (f) or who refused a breath, blood, or urine test to apply to the Transportation Cabinet for an ignition interlock license; delete the requirement that certain offenses require court approval to apply for an ignition interlock license; amend KRS 189A.085 to require proof of issuance of an ignition interlock license to avoid impoundment of a defendant’s license plate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to state that an employer exemption for an ignition interlock device allows the person to operate his or her employer's non-ignition interlock equipped motor vehicle in the course and scope of employment if the business entity that owns the motor vehicle is not owned or controlled by the person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to provide that within thirty days of issuance of an ignition interlock license, a person must have a functioning ignition interlock device installed in his or her vehicle; amend KRS 189A.090 to make technical corrections to allow the court to revoke an ignition interlock or hardship license if the person has been convicted of a violation under KRS Chapter 189 for which points are assessed by the Transportation Cabinet or of certain offenses under KRS Chapter 189A; amend KRS 189A.105 to require that at the time of a breath, blood, or urine test a person shall be informed that he or she will have to the ability to apply for an ignition interlock license; amend KRS 189A.107 to allow a person who refuses a breath, blood, or urine test to apply for an ignition interlock license if the person files a motion waiving the right to judicial review and to receive credit on a day-for-day basis after conviction; provide that a person who was not convicted of a violation of KRS 189A.010 but found by the court to have refused to submit to testing may receive credit on a day-for-day basis; amend KRS 189A.200 to revise procedure for issuance of an ignition interlock license during a suspension period for refusal to take a breath, blood, or urine test and other violations of KRS 189A.010; amend KRS 189A.240 to amend procedures related to issuance of an ignition interlock license during a pretrial suspension under KRS 189A.200(1)(a); amend KRS 189A.320 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 189A.400 to revise jurisdictional requirements of the District Court related to the issuance of ignition interlock licenses; amend KRS 189A.410 to revise eligibility requirements for issuance of a hardship driver’s license after a minimum license suspension period under KRS 189A.010(6) or KRS 189A.070; amend KRS 189A.500 to require the Transportation Cabinet to create a process by which a person may seek administrative review by the cabinet related to ignition interlock devices; repeal KRS 189A.340, 189A.345, 189A.420, and 189A.440, relating to ignition interlock devices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB255/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB255.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1099866,"bill_number":"SB267","title":"AN ACT relating to screening committees.","description":"Amend KRS 160.352 to permit a local board of education in a school district with a student minority population of 50 percent or greater to appoint three at-large members to the screening committee.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB267/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB267.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1099867,"bill_number":"HR214","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Orval Snider.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Orval Snider.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR214/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR214.htm","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1099870,"bill_number":"SB263","title":"AN ACT requiring the offering of hepatitis C screening testing.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require health care providers to make referrals for hepatitis C screening testing as part of an individual's annual medical examination; require appropriate follow-up health care if a test is reactive; require the referral to include education; specify that this requirement shall not affect the scope of practice of care for hepatitis C testing of a health care provider.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB263/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB263.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1099874,"bill_number":"SB238","title":"AN ACT relating to sexual violence training.","description":"Amend KRS 311.601, 311.844, 311A.120, and 314.073 to require training on awareness of sexual violence for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and emergency medical technicians.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB238/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB238.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1099876,"bill_number":"SB229","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to forbidding the application of foreign law.","description":"Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to forbid the application of foreign law if citizens' rights would be infringed upon; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB229/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB229.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1099878,"bill_number":"SB247","title":"AN ACT relating to the inclusion of a district board of education in a property assessment or reassessment moratorium.","description":"Amend KRS 99.600 to authorize a consolidated local government to allow a district board of education to be included in its assessment or reassessment moratorium program; require the consolidated local government to notify the administrating agency, if the district board of education is accepted; amend 160.460 to require an administrating agency to ensure that the proper school district is provided the assessed valuation of property when that property is participating in an assessment or reassessment moratorium; provide an exception to the 100 percent fair cash value requirement for assessing real property for property participating in an assessment or reassessment moratorium.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB247/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB247.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099881,"bill_number":"SB256","title":"AN ACT relating to adoption.","description":"Amend KRS 199.470 to set forth which relatives do not need the secretary's approval to adopt a child; align placement options with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; amend KRS 199.500 to simplify the timeline; amend KRS 199.502 to limit fees charged by appointed attorneys; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB256/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB256.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1099883,"bill_number":"SR255","title":"Recognize the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.","description":"Recognize the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR255/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR255.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1099885,"bill_number":"SB272","title":"AN ACT relating to medical marijuana.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; establish a medical marijuana program that allows for a patient to possess 2.5 ounces of marijuana if he or she has a qualifying condition, a physician recommendation, and a card; establish protections for cardholders, physicians, attorneys, and pharmacists; establish requirements for dispensaries and cultivation facilities; require Department for Public Health to administer and enforce provisions relating to patients, qualifying medical conditions, and designated caregivers, including registry identification cards for qualifying patients and designated caregivers; establish a secure database for patient information; establish requirements for designated caregivers and parents; clarify conduct that is not authorized; establish a medical purpose defense for the use of marijuana; establish and require dispensaries and cultivation facilities to be licensed, regulated, and monitored by the Medical Marijuana Commission and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control; require that a business demonstrate that 60% of each board can show continuous residency in Kentucky for the previous 7 years; require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to adopt administrative regulations governing oversight requirements, security requirements, personnel requirements, penalties and appeal procedures; establish advertising restrictions; establish a date for the commission to begin accepting applications; require at least 20 but no more than 40 dispensary licenses, and at least 4 but no more than 8 cultivation facility licenses; prohibit an individual from owning an interest in more than 1 cultivation facility and dispensary; prohibit dispensaries from selling products which require the combustion of marijuana; allow dispensaries to grow or possess up to 50 mature marijuana plants; allow a cultivation facility to cultivate and possess usable marijuana in an amount reasonably necessary to met demands; establish a process to determine amount of marijuana reasonably necessary; allow for data sharing between departments and commission; require appointment of a pharmacy consultant by a dispensary and establish duties for pharmacy consultant; establish security requirements for cultivation facilities; require agents of dispensaries and cultivation facilities to register with the Department for Alcoholic Beverage Control require that department to administer and enforce provisions relating to cultivation facility and dispensary agents; establish additional inventory, recordkeeping, and security requirements; state that cultivation facilities may only sell marijuana to dispensaries; prohibit a local entity from prohibiting the operation of a dispensary or cultivation facility unless the prohibition is approved by the voters of the affected territory; allow for the Medical Marijuana Commission to license transporters, distributors, and processors, and establish requirements and responsibilities for these entities, including licensure; establish prohibitions for physicians; create an option for alterative licensure if the departments and commission fail to act to create the medical marijuana program; establish the Medical Marijuana Commission; state that there is no implied repeal of the existing Kentucky laws criminalizing possession of marijuana; state that the only authorized growing of marijuana is at a dispensary or cultivation facility and not by patients or caregivers; state how the retail sale of usable marijuana shall be taxed; amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423 to conform; establish a short title.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB272/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB272.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099887,"bill_number":"SR256","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Doyle Terry Crenshaw.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Doyle Terry Crenshaw.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR256/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR256.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1099889,"bill_number":"SB241","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gaming.","description":"Propose to amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define and permit casino gaming; provide for the oversight and control of casino gaming by an administrative body funded by license fees and taxes levied on casino gaming; prior to July 1, 2038, require 100% of the casino gaming proceeds, in excess of the amount used to pay for an oversight administrative body of casino gaming, to go to the retirement systems.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB241/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB241.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099893,"bill_number":"SR254","title":"Request due diligence and environmentally sound practices in any future repurposing of an existing natural gas pipeline.","description":"Request due diligence and environmentally sound practices in any future repurposing of an existing natural gas pipeline.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR254/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR254.htm","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1099895,"bill_number":"SB252","title":"AN ACT relating to radon gas.","description":"Amend KRS 211.9119 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB252/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB252.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1099898,"bill_number":"SB233","title":"AN ACT relating to boards and commissions.","description":"Amend KRS 12.070 to provide the Governor authority to appoint members to boards and commissions when entities charged with submitting a list of names fail to submit the list.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"returned to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB233/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB233.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1099900,"bill_number":"HR217","title":"Urge private and public colleges and universities in Kentucky to provide information to all students on the benefits and risks of meningococcal immunization.","description":"Urge private and public colleges and universities in Kentucky to provide information to all students on the benefits and risks of meningococcal immunization.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR217/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR217.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1099902,"bill_number":"SB271","title":"AN ACT establishing support for dyslexia and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to create a dyslexia trust fund to be administered by the Kentucky Department of Education to finance grants to school districts for support of students identified with characteristics of dyslexia; require a report on expenditures from the fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create a Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate with extra fees funding the dyslexia trust fund; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of license plates to include the Dyslexia Ready to Read special license plate; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB271/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB271.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1099905,"bill_number":"SB261","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency air ambulance coverage and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define \"balance bill\" and \"insured\"; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"registered air ambulance service provider\" and to require a health benefit plan to hold harmless an insured for any amount owed to a registered air ambulance provider; prohibit a health benefit plan from using an allowed amount for air ambulance services under certain conditions to determine when an air ambulance transport is medically necessary; require assumption of charges by the insurer under certain conditions; require notification to the air ambulance service of assumption by the insurer; prohibit the air ambulance provider from certain actions following receipt of notification; establish payment requirements for the insurer; establish the Independent Dispute Resolution Program for air ambulance service charges within the Department of Insurance; require reporting by registered air ambulance service providers and the department; require registration in the program; require an independent reviewer for the program; establish procedures for the Independent Dispute Resolution Program; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit an insurer from using debt owed by a consumer to an air ambulance provider in determining insurance rates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit any individual or business from considering any debt owed by a consumer to an air ambulance provider in determining whether to issue credit or determine rates of interest; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to prohibit an air ambulance provider from reporting any debt owed to it by a consumer to a consumer reporting agency; amend KRS 427.010 to set exemptions from enforcement of a judgment for debt owed by an individual to an air ambulance provider; amend KRS 426.720 to prohibit the attachment of a judgment arising out of a debt to an air ambulance provider as a lien against real property. Sections 1 to 11 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019; EMERGENCY; apply provisions of Sections 12 through 16 to prospective actions on debt owed on or after January 1, 2010.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB261/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB261.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":1099907,"bill_number":"SB268","title":"AN ACT relating to workforce.","description":"Amend KRS 337.055 to insert gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB268/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB268.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1099909,"bill_number":"SB242","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal fleeing in the first degree.","description":"Amend KRS 520.095 to specify circumstances under which criminal fleeing in the first degree is a Class C felony.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB242/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB242.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099913,"bill_number":"SB249","title":"AN ACT relating to oil and gas hearings.","description":"Amend KRS 13B.020 to exempt oil and gas hearings held under KRS Chapter 353 from the hearing requirements of KRS Chapter 13B, except for hearings conducted by the Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission under KRS Chapter 353.500 to 353.720; amend KRS 353.060 to provide for petition and notice requirements for oil and gas hearings held by the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings relating to drilling near coal-bearing strata; amend KRS 353.200 to specify that the Department for Natural Resources may receive complaints of drilling or mining operations not conforming to orders of the cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings; amend KRS 353.510 to define \"notice\"; amend KRS 353.590 to change the bond forfeiture process for noncomplying operators; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; amend KRS 353.5901 to require the director to make a final agency determination with regard to a mediation plan between well operators and surface owners; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; make conforming changes; amend KRS 353.620 to allow the director to determine whether a distance variance may be permitted for a well; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; amend KRS 353.630 to change notice requirements relating to the pooling of oil and gas interests; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; amend KRS 353.640 to change notice requirements for pooling orders relating to unknown or unlocatable owners; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; amend KRS 353.645 to specify who interested persons are with regard to pooled oil and gas interests; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; make conforming changes; amend KRS 353.700 to change the appeal process for final determinations made or orders issued under KRS Chapter 353; establish petition and hearing procedures; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish formal and informal hearing procedures; allow for appeal to Franklin Circuit Court of final orders issued by the secretary under the section; make conforming changes; amend 353.806 to provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act; make conforming changes; amend 353.808 to change notice requirements for pool orders relating to sequestration of carbon dioxide; provide that orders or final determinations under the section are subject to review under Section 11 of the Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 94)","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB249/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB249.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1099915,"bill_number":"SB270","title":"AN ACT relating to dyslexia.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"dyslexia\" and \"evidence-based\"; require the Department of Education to make available a dyslexia toolkit that includes guidance on the instruction of students displaying characteristics of dyslexia; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Education Professional Standards Board and the Council on Postsecondary Education to update professional development for teachers related to dyslexia; require each local board of education to develop policies for identifying and assisting students in kindergarten through grade three with dyslexia and other learning disabilities; require school districts to report data to the Department of Education regarding dyslexia screening and results; require teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia; require the commissioner of education to select three school districts to participate in a study project; this may be cited as the Ready to Read Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB270/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB270.htm","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1099918,"bill_number":"HCR215","title":"Direct the Division of Probation and Parole to examine its current administrative model to determine the best way to ensure that persons who violate the conditions of their probation or parole have the privilege of probation or parole revoked.","description":"Direct the Division of Probation and Parole to examine its current administrative model to determine the best way to ensure that persons who violate the conditions of their probation or parole have the privilege of probation or parole revoked.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR215/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR215.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":1099920,"bill_number":"SB250","title":"AN ACT relating to screening for hepatitis C.","description":"Amend KRS 214.160 to establish that all pregnant women be tested for hepatitis C and recommend testing for children born from a pregnant woman who has a positive hepatitis C test result.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 125)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB250/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB250.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1099922,"bill_number":"SB232","title":"AN ACT relating to metering of electric service.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapters 96 and 278 to define \"smart meter\" and to require utilities seeking to install smart meters to give notice to affected customers and the right to opt out of having a smart meter installed on the customer's premises; specify that customers are not required to pay for any electricity necessary to power the smart meter.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB232/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB232.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1099925,"bill_number":"SB231","title":"AN ACT relating to the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to create the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the scholarship in collaboration with the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; define eligibility requirements for the scholarship; define the scholarship award amount; require the authority to prepare an annual report on the scholarship in collaboration with the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics; create the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship fund; confirm Executive Order 2017-434; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"floor amendments (6) to hfa(1), (7) to hfa(4), (8) to hfa(2) and (9-title) filed","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB231/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB231.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1099927,"bill_number":"SB253","title":"AN ACT relating to micro out-of-state distilled spirits and wine supplier's licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 243.030 to authorize micro out-of-state distilled spirits and wine supplier's licenses; amend KRS 243.212 to add license requirements; amend KRS 243.360 to include in exemption from advertising intent to apply.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB253/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB253.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1099930,"bill_number":"SB264","title":"AN ACT relating to historical memorials.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 11 to establish the Kentucky Historical Memorials Act of 2018; define terms; create standards for preservation; establish the Committee on Kentucky Historical Memorials and provide the structure, process, and membership of the committee; establish the duties of the committee; establish a process for any entity who wants to relocate, remove, alter, change, preserve, or rename certain significant properties; require the Division of Historic Properties to promulgate administrative regulations under KRS Chapter 13A for the implementation of this Act; amend KRS 11.026 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB264/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB264.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1099933,"bill_number":"SB230","title":"AN ACT relating to racial impact statements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6, relating to legislation considered by the General Assembly, to require racial impact statements when indicated.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB230/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB230.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1099936,"bill_number":"SB237","title":"AN ACT relating to freedom of speech at public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 164.348 to require public postsecondary institutions to adopt policies ensuring the protection of freedom of speech and expression by students and faculty; require policies to be made available to students and faculty; create a cause of action for a violation of any policy required by the Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB237/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB237.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1099938,"bill_number":"SB254","title":"AN ACT relating to exceptional education.","description":"Amend KRS 157.224 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to consider a school district's special education application for funding insufficient and to withhold add-on funds from the district if they fail to appropriately implement and operate special education programs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB254/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB254.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1099940,"bill_number":"SB248","title":"AN ACT relating to the security of personal information and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide three years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze, temporary lift, or removal request placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.732 to define \"encrypt,\" \"personally identifiable information,\" and \"security breach\"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and e-mail accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request of one consumer report from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to include exemption for certain persons from the definition of \"nonaffiliated third parties\"; conform the definition of \"personally identifiable information\"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, 61.933, 61.934, 171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB248/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB248.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099943,"bill_number":"SB245","title":"AN ACT related to financial institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 286.3-172 to make technical corrections and include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB245/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB245.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1099945,"bill_number":"SB266","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 certain felonies the right to vote as provided by the General Assembly; submit to voters with question.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB266/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB266.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1099947,"bill_number":"SB239","title":"AN ACT relating to sexual activity with animals.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to establish the crime of sexual activity with animals; define terms; specify the conduct that a person knowingly engages in that constitutes sexual activity with animals; provide that sexual activity with animals is a Class A misdemeanor; allow the court to impose additional penalties on a person convicted of violation of the section; exempt accepted animal husbandry or veterinary medical practices from the provisions of the section; allow the court to seize all animals involved in an alleged violation as a condition of bond if the court has reasonable grounds to believe that a violation has occurred.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB239/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB239.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1099949,"bill_number":"SB257","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the Charter Schools Advisory Council; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the State Advisory Council for Exceptional Children; amend KRS 156.029 to revise the Kentucky Board of Education membership; amend KRS 156.040 to allow a Kentucky Board of Education member to hold a non-paid state office requiring the constitutional oath; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 158.648 to revise the State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education membership; repeal and reenact KRS 158.794 to abolish the Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Grant Steering Committee and create the Read to Achieve Council; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 161.028 to attach the Education Professional Standards Board to the Kentucky Department of Education for administrative purposes; revise the board membership; amend KRS 161.120 to provide the commissioner of education subpoena authority for EPSB disciplinary cases; amend KRS 164.011 to revise the Council on Postsecondary Education membership; amend KRS 161.220 to provide for the transition to KDE for EPSB employees that participate in KTRS; amend KRS 151B.134 to revise the membership of the Board of the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 158.6452 and 161.017; confirm Executive Order 2017-364.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB257/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB257.htm","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1099953,"bill_number":"SB243","title":"AN ACT relating to casualty insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.20-043, relating to insurance policies for automobiles owned by state employees, to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB243/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB243.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1099954,"bill_number":"SB265","title":"AN ACT relating to instruction in voting.","description":"Amend KRS 116.046 to require that at least once each school year, each public high school, vocational school, and upon request, private schools, must inform students and school personnel about the availability of voter registration forms and provide assistance with properly registering; require school districts to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission documenting the dissemination of voter registration information, the total number of students who have registered to vote, and a plan for encouraging students to vote; include sophomores as an eligible class of persons to receive access to secondary school programs regarding instructions in voting; include within the secondary school programs of public education regarding elections, how to register to vote, how to vote in an election using a ballot, and how to vote using an absentee ballot.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB265/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB265.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1099956,"bill_number":"HR216","title":"Recognize the stewardship of adolescent opioid use by Kentucky dentists and oral surgeons for their stewardship and efforts to reduce adolescent opioid use in the midst of a public health opioid crisis and for their education of patients on the potentially negative effects of use of opioids.","description":"Recognize the stewardship of adolescent opioid use by Kentucky dentists and oral surgeons for their stewardship and efforts to reduce adolescent opioid use in the midst of a public health opioid crisis and for their education of patients on the potentially negative effects of use of opioids.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR216/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR216.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1099959,"bill_number":"SB251","title":"AN ACT relating to access to health services and supports for Kentuckians who are medically complex and have neurological behavioral disorders, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a task force to identify issues, develop strategies, propose legislative and regulatory changes, and determine funding mechanisms to provide care for Kentuckians who are medically complex and have neurological behavioral disorders; establish membership; establish topics for study; require reporting to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare and Family Services and the Legislative Research Commission; create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require DMS and MCOs to establish a crisis transitioning service for individuals with medical complexity recovering from an emergency, allow for contracting with a single entity to conduct transitioning services for those experiencing an emergency; establish a pilot project for a self-determination of funding services and supports for at least 25 persons receiving services under the 1915(c) waiver program; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB251/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB251.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1099961,"bill_number":"SB235","title":"AN ACT relating to surprise billing.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-500 to define \"facility\" and \"in-network facility;\" create a new section of KRS 304.17A-500 to 304.17A-590 to require health benefit plans to cover certain nonemergency health care services provided by a nonparticipating health care provider to a covered person at an in-network facility at the in-network rate; prohibit nonparticipating health care providers from attempting to collect payment from a covered person for covered services; provide reimbursement criteria for covered services provided by a nonparticipating provider at an in-network facility; amend KRS 304.17A-254 and KRS 304.17A-527 to conform and to require insurers to require any provider contracts with in-network health facilities requires the provider to accept the in-network rate as payment in full; to prohibit balance billing the covered person beyond his or her in-network cost sharing; amend KRS 304.17A-565 to make technical corrections and to provide that the insurance code shall not preempt or supersede other rights or remedies available to covered persons under law; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to add provisions of KRS 304.17A-641 and to require nonparticipating health care providers accept the in-network reimbursement rate for emergency services provided at an in-network facility as payment in full; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove reference to repealed statute; amend KRS 304.17B-001 to conform; repeal KRS 304.17A-640, 304.17A-641, and 304.17A-649; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB235/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB235.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1099963,"bill_number":"HR213","title":"Designate the month of March of each year as \"Sexual Harassment Awareness Month\" in Kentucky.","description":"Designate the month of March of each year as \"Sexual Harassment Awareness Month\" in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR213/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR213.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1099966,"bill_number":"SB269","title":"AN ACT relating to tax incentives for brownfields redevelopment.","description":"Amend KRS 141.418, relating to tax incentives for polluted property redevelopment, to establish a percentage credit instead of a capped-sum credit; amend varoius sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make technical corrections and conforming changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-01","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2018-03-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB269/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB269.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1100431,"bill_number":"SR258","title":"Adjourn in honor of 103-year-old Juanita Green, who is celebrating her 104th birthday on March 12, 2018.","description":"Adjourn in honor of 103-year-old Juanita Green, who is celebrating her 104th birthday on March 12, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR258/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR258.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1101329,"bill_number":"HR218","title":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States.","description":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR218/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR218.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1101939,"bill_number":"HR221","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent Ray Downs.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent Ray Downs.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR221/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR221.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1101996,"bill_number":"HR219","title":"Recognize March 7, 2018, as Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol.","description":"Recognize March 7, 2018, as Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR219/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR219.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1102053,"bill_number":"HR222","title":"Urge the American Law Institute to materially change the proposed Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance, and if meaningful change is not made prior to final approval of the Restatement, that the Restatement not be afforded recognition by courts as an authoritative reference.","description":"Urge the American Law Institute to materially change the proposed Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance, and if meaningful change is not made prior to final approval of the Restatement, that the Restatement not be afforded recognition by courts as an authoritative reference.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-06","last_action":"3rd reading, passed 90-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR222/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR222.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":1102110,"bill_number":"HR220","title":"Recognize March 11-17, 2018, as Sunshine Week 2018 in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize March 11-17, 2018, as Sunshine Week 2018 in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR220/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR220.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1102607,"bill_number":"HR224","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Ann Nichols Gray.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Ann Nichols Gray.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR224/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR224.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1102615,"bill_number":"HR223","title":"Urge the United States Congress to support the National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to support the National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR223/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR223.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1102629,"bill_number":"HCR226","title":"Create the Diabetes Medical Emergency Response Task Force to study and develop recommendations to address the emergent medical needs of individuals diagnosed with diabetes; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least bimonthly during the 2018 Interim and to submit findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2018.","description":"Create the Diabetes Medical Emergency Response Task Force to study and develop recommendations to address the emergent medical needs of individuals diagnosed with diabetes; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least bimonthly during the 2018 Interim and to submit findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2018.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2018-04-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 132)","last_action_date":"2018-04-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR226/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HCR226.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":1102636,"bill_number":"HR225","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don C. \"Big Don\" Gish Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don C. \"Big Don\" Gish Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR225/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR225.htm","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1103239,"bill_number":"HR232","title":"Encourage Kentucky grocers to offer paper grocery bags as an alternative to plastic grocery bags.","description":"Encourage Kentucky grocers to offer paper grocery bags as an alternative to plastic grocery bags.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Economic Development & Workforce Investment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR232/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR232.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":1103250,"bill_number":"HR231","title":"Urge the members of the Kentucky House of Representatives to consider the shortage of public school bus drivers in public school districts throughout Kentucky when considering restrictions on reemployment of public retirees in any pension reform legislation.","description":"Urge the members of the Kentucky House of Representatives to consider the shortage of public school bus drivers in public school districts throughout Kentucky when considering restrictions on reemployment of public retirees in any pension reform legislation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR231/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR231.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":1103263,"bill_number":"HR234","title":"Recognize the suffering and anguish experienced by women and families who learn during pregnancy that their unborn child has a life-limiting condition which could result in the death before or shortly after birth, and the importance of perinatal palliative care and neonatal palliative and hospice care in providing support, information, and education for these women and families.","description":"Recognize the suffering and anguish experienced by women and families who learn during pregnancy that their unborn child has a life-limiting condition which could result in the death before or shortly after birth, and the importance of perinatal palliative care and neonatal palliative and hospice care in providing support, information, and education for these women and families.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR234/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR234.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":1103277,"bill_number":"HR230","title":"Honoring the Lux Row Distillery upon joining the KDA as a Heritage level member.","description":"Honoring the Lux Row Distillery upon joining the KDA as a Heritage level member.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR230/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR230.htm","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1103288,"bill_number":"HR228","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a majority of the committee membership voting to report a bill or resolution.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a majority of the committee membership voting to report a bill or resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR228/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR228.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1103303,"bill_number":"HR233","title":"Honor the Franklin-Simpson High School football team upon winning the Kentucky 4A State Championship.","description":"Honor the Franklin-Simpson High School football team upon winning the Kentucky 4A State Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR233/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR233.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":1103328,"bill_number":"HR229","title":"Recognize March 8, 2018, as International Women's Day.","description":"Recognize March 8, 2018, as International Women's Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR229/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR229.htm","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1103341,"bill_number":"HR227","title":"Proclaim Soybean Week in the Commonwealth.","description":"Proclaim Soybean Week in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR227/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR227.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1103762,"bill_number":"HR235","title":"Honor the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour distilleries for surpassing one million visitors for the second consecutive year.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour distilleries for surpassing one million visitors for the second consecutive year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR235/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR235.htm","sponsor":"Linda Belcher"},
{"bill_id":1104805,"bill_number":"HR236","title":"Celebrate Girl Scout Day.","description":"Celebrate Girl Scout Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR236/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR236.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1104815,"bill_number":"SR260","title":"Honor the Covington IAFF Local 38, the Newport IAFF Local 45, and the Louisville IAFF Local 345 firefighters.","description":"Honor the Covington IAFF Local 38, the Newport IAFF Local 45, and the Louisville IAFF Local 345 firefighters.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR260/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR260.htm","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1104826,"bill_number":"HR237","title":"Honor the Graves County High School cheerleading team for its national championship in the large varsity co-ed division of the Universal Cheerleading Association's National High School Cheerleading Championship.","description":"Honor the Graves County High School cheerleading team for its national championship in the large varsity co-ed division of the Universal Cheerleading Association's National High School Cheerleading Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR237/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR237.htm","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1104836,"bill_number":"SR259","title":"Recognize and celebrate Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Michael B. Coleman upon the dedication of the Michael B. Coleman Government Center.","description":"Recognize and celebrate Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Michael B. Coleman upon the dedication of the Michael B. Coleman Government Center.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR259/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR259.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1105195,"bill_number":"HR241","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Luke Martin Whitsell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Luke Martin Whitsell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR241/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR241.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1105212,"bill_number":"HR238","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a simple majority of the committee membership present and voting favorably to report a bill or resolution.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a simple majority of the committee membership present and voting favorably to report a bill or resolution.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR238/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR238.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1105229,"bill_number":"SR263","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Georganne \"Jan\" Brown Taylor.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Georganne \"Jan\" Brown Taylor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR263/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR263.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1105247,"bill_number":"SR265","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Pearse Lyons.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Pearse Lyons.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR265/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR265.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1105265,"bill_number":"HR239","title":"Honor Ali Edelstein upon receiving the 2017 Kevin E. Quinlan Award for Excellence in Traffic Safety.","description":"Honor Ali Edelstein upon receiving the 2017 Kevin E. Quinlan Award for Excellence in Traffic Safety.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR239/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR239.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1105282,"bill_number":"SR261","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ricky Dane \"Ranger Rick\" Caudill.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ricky Dane \"Ranger Rick\" Caudill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR261/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR261.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1105317,"bill_number":"SR262","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Deborah Kay \"Debbie\" Goebel.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Deborah Kay \"Debbie\" Goebel.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR262/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR262.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1105335,"bill_number":"HR240","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bryce Michael Sheffer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bryce Michael Sheffer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR240/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR240.htm","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1105354,"bill_number":"SR264","title":"Recognize April of 2018 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.","description":"Recognize April of 2018 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR264/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR264.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1105931,"bill_number":"SR272","title":"Confirm the appointment of Rebecca Ruby Swansburg to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Rebecca Ruby Swansburg to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR272/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR272.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":1105938,"bill_number":"SR271","title":"Confirm the appointment of Richard Crist to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Richard Crist to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR271/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR271.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1105944,"bill_number":"HR243","title":"Honor National Pi Day.","description":"Honor National Pi Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR243/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR243.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1105951,"bill_number":"SR269","title":"Confirm the appointment of Jordan Lanham to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jordan Lanham to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR269/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR269.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1105958,"bill_number":"SR267","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon E. Brown.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon E. Brown.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR267/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR267.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1105964,"bill_number":"SR270","title":"Confirm the appointment of William M. Boggs to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of William M. Boggs to the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR270/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR270.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1105969,"bill_number":"SR273","title":"Confirm the appointment of Katie L. Moyer to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Katie L. Moyer to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR273/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR273.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1105976,"bill_number":"HR244","title":"Honor all the young people who are fighting for their safety by participating in walk-outs to protest gun violence.","description":"Honor all the young people who are fighting for their safety by participating in walk-outs to protest gun violence.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR244/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR244.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1105983,"bill_number":"SR266","title":"Honor Jack Baker and the United States First Army on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the unit; recognize Jack Baker's distinguished military career as a member of First Army, and recognize his accomplishments and contributions to the United States and to the Commonwealth.","description":"Honor Jack Baker and the United States First Army on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the unit; recognize Jack Baker's distinguished military career as a member of First Army, and recognize his accomplishments and contributions to the United States and to the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR266/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR266.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1105989,"bill_number":"SR268","title":"Proclaim March 19, 2018, as Celebrating Women in Public Office Day.","description":"Proclaim March 19, 2018, as Celebrating Women in Public Office Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR268/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR268.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1105996,"bill_number":"HR242","title":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a simple majority of the committee membership present and voting favorably to report a bill or resolution.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2018 House of Representatives by amending Rule 47 to require a simple majority of the committee membership present and voting favorably to report a bill or resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR242/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR242.htm","sponsor":"William Wells"},
{"bill_id":1106008,"bill_number":"SR190","title":"Confirm the appointment of John Fritz Giesecke to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of John Fritz Giesecke to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-14","last_action":"passed 36-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR190/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR190.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106447,"bill_number":"SR274","title":"Honor the Mercer County High School girls' basketball team upon winning their second straight KHSAA Sweet Sixteen.","description":"Honor the Mercer County High School girls' basketball team upon winning their second straight KHSAA Sweet Sixteen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR274/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR274.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":1106451,"bill_number":"HR249","title":"Respectfully urge and petition the United States Congress to enact H.R. 1472/S. 591, the Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017, and to enact H.R. 1802, the CARE for All Veterans Act.","description":"Respectfully urge and petition the United States Congress to enact H.R. 1472/S. 591, the Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017, and to enact H.R. 1802, the CARE for All Veterans Act.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR249/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR249.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1106455,"bill_number":"SR277","title":"Confirm the appointment of Frank E. Collecchia to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System Board of Trustees for a term expiring March 10, 2019.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Frank E. Collecchia to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System Board of Trustees for a term expiring March 10, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR277/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR277.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106459,"bill_number":"SR280","title":"Confirm the appointment of Patrick Kelly Downard to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2019.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Patrick Kelly Downard to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR280/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR280.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106463,"bill_number":"HR246","title":"Honor Hindman Elementary upon winning the Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama Association State Speech Competition.","description":"Honor Hindman Elementary upon winning the Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama Association State Speech Competition.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR246/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR246.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1106468,"bill_number":"SR278","title":"Confirm the appointment of Melvin B. Henley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2020.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Melvin B. Henley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2020.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR278/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR278.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
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{"bill_id":1106476,"bill_number":"SR284","title":"Confirm the appointment of Wilburn Joe Brothers to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Wilburn Joe Brothers to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR284/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR284.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106480,"bill_number":"HR245","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Scotty Hamilton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Scotty Hamilton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR245/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR245.htm","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1106485,"bill_number":"SR281","title":"Confirm the appointment of David Michael Gallagher to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of David Michael Gallagher to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR281/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR281.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106489,"bill_number":"SR282","title":"Confirm the appointment of Matthew L. Monteiro to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2019.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Matthew L. Monteiro to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR282/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR282.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106494,"bill_number":"SR283","title":"Confirm the reappointment of James Fulkerson to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of James Fulkerson to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring July 1, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR283/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR283.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106498,"bill_number":"SR275","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent \"Van\" Warren.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent \"Van\" Warren.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR275/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR275.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
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{"bill_id":1106510,"bill_number":"SR276","title":"Confirm the appointment of John Valentine Boardman, III to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System Board of Trustees for a term expiring March 10, 2023.","description":"Confirm the appointment of John Valentine Boardman, III to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System Board of Trustees for a term expiring March 10, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR276/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR276.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1106514,"bill_number":"HR248","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fred T. Garnett.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fred T. Garnett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR248/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR248.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1106518,"bill_number":"SR286","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Johnny Wright.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Johnny Wright.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR286/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR286.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":1106522,"bill_number":"SR285","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Jan M. Buddeke to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2021.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Jan M. Buddeke to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-03-15","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR285/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR285.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
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{"bill_id":1113228,"bill_number":"HR311","title":"Honor Representative Steve Riggs upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Steve Riggs upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR311/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR311.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1113230,"bill_number":"HR327","title":"Honor Representative Scott Wells upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Scott Wells upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR327/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR327.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1113231,"bill_number":"SR365","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Morgan Compton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John Morgan Compton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR365/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR365.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1113232,"bill_number":"HR315","title":"Honor Representative Kenny Imes upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Kenny Imes upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR315/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR315.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1113234,"bill_number":"SR356","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Geary.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Geary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR356/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR356.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1113235,"bill_number":"SR327","title":"Confirm the appointment of Sherry Wilson Powers to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2019.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Sherry Wilson Powers to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2019.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR327/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR327.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1113236,"bill_number":"HR332","title":"Recognize April 22 to 28, 2018, as Kentucky Chemists Celebrate Earth Week.","description":"Recognize April 22 to 28, 2018, as Kentucky Chemists Celebrate Earth Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR332/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR332.htm","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1113237,"bill_number":"SR331","title":"Confirm the appointment of Mary R. Nixon to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees for a term expiring January 13, 2024.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Mary R. Nixon to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees for a term expiring January 13, 2024.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR331/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR331.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1113239,"bill_number":"HR321","title":"Honor Representative Will Coursey upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Will Coursey upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR321/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR321.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":1113240,"bill_number":"SR336","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Deborah Haydon Long to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Deborah Haydon Long to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR336/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR336.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1113241,"bill_number":"SR328","title":"Confirm the appointment of Rachel E. Colyer to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2021.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Rachel E. Colyer to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2021.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR328/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR328.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1113243,"bill_number":"HR325","title":"Honor Representative Robby Mills upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Robby Mills upon his retirement from the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR325/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR325.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1113244,"bill_number":"SR340","title":"Confirm the appointment of Roger Reynolds to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2018.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Roger Reynolds to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2018.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"passed 38-0","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR340/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR340.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":1113245,"bill_number":"SR363","title":"Honor the collaborative efforts of the Jamon Brown Foundation and the Coalition for the Homeless and their commitment to preventing and eliminating homelessness in the Commonwealth.","description":"Honor the collaborative efforts of the Jamon Brown Foundation and the Coalition for the Homeless and their commitment to preventing and eliminating homelessness in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR363/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR363.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1113827,"bill_number":"HR336","title":"Condemn remarks made by the Governor concerning teachers.","description":"Condemn remarks made by the Governor concerning teachers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR336/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR336.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":1113845,"bill_number":"HR335","title":"Condemn remarks made by the Governor concerning teachers.","description":"Condemn remarks made by the Governor concerning teachers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR335/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR335.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":1113863,"bill_number":"HR337","title":"Urge the 2018 Program Review and Investigations Committee to investigate the KentuckyWired Project.","description":"Urge the 2018 Program Review and Investigations Committee to investigate the KentuckyWired Project.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR337/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR337.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1113881,"bill_number":"SR366","title":"Honor the memory of recently deceased Holocaust survivors Renee and John Rothschild, Melvin Goldfarb, and Claus Behr.","description":"Honor the memory of recently deceased Holocaust survivors Renee and John Rothschild, Melvin Goldfarb, and Claus Behr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR366/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SR366.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1113914,"bill_number":"HR334","title":"Honor Earl Dennis \"Denny\" Nunnelley.","description":"Honor Earl Dennis \"Denny\" Nunnelley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-04-14","last_action":"adopted","last_action_date":"2018-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR334/2018","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HR334.htm","sponsor":"James Kay"},
{"bill_id":1134027,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency.","description":"Except as otherwise provided, repeal, reenact, and amend the following sections: amend KRS 6.505 to provide that the “inviolable contract” shall not apply to legislative changes to the Legislators’ Retirement Plan (LRP) that become effective on or after January 1, 2019; amend KRS 6.518 to make conforming changes deleting references to the 401(a) money purchase plan repealed in Section 12 of the bill; repeal and reenact KRS 6.520 and 6.525 without changes; amend KRS 21.360 to provide that the “inviolable contract” shall not apply to legislative changes to the Judicial Retirement Plan (JRP) that become effective on or after January 1, 2019; amend KRS 21.372 to make conforming changes deleting references to the 401(a) money purchase plan repealed in Section 12 of the bill; amend KRS 21.374 to restore provisions permitting existing members of LRP or JRP to elect to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of the benefits the members are currently eligible to receive under the plans; repeal and reenact KRS 21.385; amend KRS 21.402 to make conforming changes relating to hybrid cash balance plan election; amend KRS 21.460 to make conforming changes deleting references to the 401(a) money purchase plan; amend KRS 21.460 to confirm that the “inviolable contract” shall not apply to legislative changes that become effective on or after January 1, 2019; repeal KRS 61.5956 relating to the creation of an optional 401(a) money purchase plan for new nonhazardous members who begin participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after January 1, 2019; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 with definitions relative to the State Police Retirement System (SPRS), KERS, and CERS to reinstitute the inclusion of uniform and equipment allowances within the definition of creditable compensation and to delete the requirement that a final compensation based upon the highest 3 (hazardous) or highest 5 (nonhazardous) years of creditable compensation must contain at least 36 or 60 months, as applicable, for all members retiring on or after January 1, 2019, regardless of member participation date; also amend KRS 61.510 to redefine “level percentage of payroll” and make conforming changes; amend KRS 61.597 to make conforming changes relating to the election to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan pursuant to KRS 61.5955; amend KRS 61.552, 61.555, 61.575, 61.580, 61.595, 78.640, and 78.650 to make conforming changes deleting references to the 401(a) money purchase plan; amend KRS 61.637 to delete the 2018 enactment relating to new rules for members of all state-administered retirement plans who retire on or after January 1, 2018, and are reemployed on or after January 1, 2019; amend KRS 61.680 to make conforming changes; amend KRS 61.702 to delete the requirement that KERS, CERS, and SPRS members hired after July 1, 2003, but before September 1, 2008, must contribute an additional 1 percent of pay toward retiree health insurance beginning on or after January 1, 2019; repeal and reenact KRS 61.705 regarding the retiree $5,000 death benefit and provide that the benefit shall not apply to those members who began participating on or after January 1, 2014; amend KRS 16.652, 61.692, and 78.852 to provide that SPRS, KERS, and CERS “inviolable contract” provisions shall not apply to legislative changes made on or after January 1, 2019; amend KRS 61.559, 61.605, and 61.640 to make conforming changes deleting references relating to the 401(a) money purchase plan; amend KRS 61.5955 to restore the optional election for pre-2014 members to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of the benefits that they would otherwise receive and make conforming amendments deleting references to the 401(a) money purchase plan; amend KRS 16.583, 16.645, and 78.545 to make conforming changes relating to the opt-in for the hybrid cash balance plan; repeal and reenact KRS 161.235 establishing a hybrid cash balance plan for new Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) members who begin participating on or after January 1, 2019, maintaining without amendment all the features of the plan enacted into law in April of 2018; repeal and reenact KRS 161.155 limiting the amount of sick leave payments that can be applied to TRS retirement benefit calculations to the amount of sick days accumulated as of December 31, 2018, as enacted into law in April of 2018; repeal and reenact KRS 161.220, 161.420, 161.470, 161.480, 161.500, 161.507, 161.515, 161.520, 161.522, 161.525, 161.540, 161.545, 161.5465, 161.547, 161.548, 161.549, 161.568, 161.580, 161.585, 161.590, 161.595, 161.600, 161.605, 161.612, 161.615, 161.620, 161.630, 161.655, 161.661, 161.650, and 161.700 to maintain conforming and technical provisions enacted into law in April of 2018; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 161.714 to provide that the “inviolable contract” shall not apply to legislative changes to TRS that become effective on or after January 1, 2019; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 61.598 to make conforming changes deleting references relating to the 401(a) money purchase plan; provide severability clause and non-appropriation clause; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HB1.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1134028,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HR1.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1134029,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"Establish the membership of the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Establish the membership of the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HR3.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1134030,"bill_number":"HCR4","title":"Adjourn the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"introduced in House","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR4/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HCR4.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":1134031,"bill_number":"HB2","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 161.620 to provide that the 3.0% benefit factor for years of service in excess of 30 in the Teachers' Retirement System shall only apply to years of service earned prior to July 1, 2024; create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to provide that CERS employer contribution rates shall not increase by more than 12% per year over the prior fiscal year from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2028; provide that CERS rate increase limit is retroactive to July 1, 2018; include severability clause; provide that KRS 6.350 and 6.955 shall not apply to this Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB2/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HB2.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1134032,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2018 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-12-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-12-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HR2.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1134783,"bill_number":"HCR5","title":"Adjourn the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2018 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2018-12-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2018-12-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR5/2018/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18SS/HCR5.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"}
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