Advisory Boards, Commissions, And Committees
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agricultural districts. [HB-418]
Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, approval, and withdrawal of property from an agricultural district, and to allow a district board of supervisors to consider possible dissolution of an agricultural district if an owner’s withdrawal of property results in the remaining land no longer qualifying as agricultural land.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 136) on 04/09/2024
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AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-420]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. [HB-361]
Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean for clinical affairs of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and the dean of the University of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine to appoint a designee to sit on the State Board of Medical Licensure; amends KRS 311.601 to allow future practicing pediatricians to apply course curriculum
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.30) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-345]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-127]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to charitable gaming. [HB-348]
Repeal and reenact KRS 238.505 to alphabetize charitable gaming-related definitions and make technical corrections; amend KRS 238.520 to adjust the membership and meeting schedule of the Charitable Gaming Advisory Commission; amend KRS 238.525 to require an applicant to disclose any prior bad acts by any of its officers or owners; delete fingerprint requirements from any applicant criminal history checks; amend KRS 238.535 to allow a charitable organization to relocate its office to another Kentucky county without changing its license to the new
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 01/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-316]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid Program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Received In Senate on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [HB-253]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 01/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [SB-106]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Families & Children (s) on 01/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-94]
Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require annual job training reports by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; require a report on occupational licenses by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to review licensing practices for nurses and physicians
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the New State Capitol campus. [HB-171]
Amend KRS 11.027 to create a process for submission of plans for installation or removal of statues, monuments, or objects of art on permanent display in the New State Capitol or on New State Capitol campus grounds and require approval by the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Withdrawn on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to soil and water conservation and declaring an emergency. [HB-130]
Amends KRS 147A.029 to allow soil and water conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts to use funds appropriated for the Local Match Participation Program for flood-related projects with federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; amends KRS 262.240 to provide immunity to a supervisor serving on a soil and water conservation board; creates a new section of KRS 262.700 to 262.795 to establish the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 77) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-90]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Withdrawn on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. [HB-116]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a PFAS Working Group to research the effect that exposure to PFAS has on health outcomes in the Commonwealth; create new sections of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224 to define the terms "consumer product," "intentionally added," "PFAS," "product component," and "wastewater treatment facility"'; establish a reporting requirement for manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in products manufactured for sale or distribution in the Commonwealth; establish a reporting requirement for PFAS releases
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
To Health Services (h) on 03/06/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic fiscal matters. [HB-58]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board and specify the board's membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for board meetings; establish requirements for when the General Assembly enacts new tax expenditures or economic development incentives; require agencies to assign taxpayers a unique number for purposes of reporting tax expenditures and economic development incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to technology in education and declaring an emergency. [SB-52]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to make legislative findings and declarations and establish the Artificial Intelligence in Kentucky's Schools project, establish requirements for the Kentucky Department of Education to implement the project, require the department to design professional development trainings related to artificial intelligence, establish professional development requirement for teachers, administrators, school council members, and school board members, require the trainings be made available to nonpublic schools, require school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Education (s) on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION denying the capital construction funds for the State Fair Board. [HJR-73]
Prohibit the Office of State Budget Director from releasing capital construction funds to the State Fair Board.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of skill games and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-525]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define terms; create the Kentucky Gaming Commission and attach it to the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; establish requirements for the commissioner and members on the commission; authorize the commission to establish and maintain an office in Frankfort; require the Auditor of Public Accountants to perform an annual audit of the commission; require the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish standard forms for the reporting of financial conditions,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services. [HB-592]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms, establish a Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, set requirements for mobile crisis response teams, require the cabinet to develop protocols, issue a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Family Services; and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish a Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services and mobile crisis team services to be
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Commission on Antisemitism. [HB-557]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to establish the Kentucky Commission on Antisemitism; set forth the duties and functions of the commission; authorize the commission to hold monthly meetings, seek comment and testimony, and provide research driven proposals; require the commission to submit an annual report.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023