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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property purchased at a master commissioner's sale. [HB-466]
Amend KRS 91.514 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to establish that any residential property that is purchased at a master commissioner's sale in a county that has a land bank authority and was occupied prior to or at the time of the sale must be returned to a state of occupancy within specified time periods; define terms; and establish a fine of $100 per day payable to the local government for noncompliance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/05/2024
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AN ACT relating to residency requirements for employees and volunteers of fire departments. [HB-393]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 67, 67A, 67C, 75, 75A, 95, 183, and 273 to prohibit residency requirements for employees or volunteers of a fire department while allowing a response time requirement in counties, charter county governments, unified local governments, urban-county governments, consolidated local governments, fire districts, consolidated emergency services districts, cities, local air boards, and nonprofit fire departments.
Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
To Local Government (h) on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-337]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local landlord and tenant ordinances. [SB-25]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that requires a landlord to participate in a housing program under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance relating to landlord and tenant laws that is in conflict with state law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
Received In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reinstatement of police and fire department employees. [HB-248]
Amends KRS 95.440 to remove the requirement that a person shall be eligible for reinstatement to a police or fire department only within one year following separation from employment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 101) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local governments. [SB-76]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance relating to landlord or tenant laws that is in conflict with the laws of this Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to urban youth agriculture education. [HB-74]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2024, and others by August 1, 2025; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property purchased at a master commissioner's sale. [HB-583]
Amend KRS 91.514 to establish that any property that has been inhabited within the previous 3 years that is purchased at a master commissioner's sale must be occupied or placed on the market for rent or sale within 18 months following the vesting of title in the purchaser; establish a fine of $100 per day payable to the local government for noncompliance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to procurement. [HB-522]
Amend KRS 424.260, relating to local government contracts, to increase amount at which advertisement of bids is required from $30,000 to $40,000.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 152) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to residential planned communities. [HB-508]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community homeowners' association when that association fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated to maintain; allow a city to recover funds expended to repair, renovate, maintain, or otherwise bring violations up to code.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Local Government (h) on 02/24/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. [HB-5]
Amend KRS 132.140 to allow an exemption of the property tax on distilled spirits stored or aging in barrels located in a bonded warehouse or premises; amend KRS 141.389 to allow the distilled spirits income tax credit only to taxable years beginning prior to January 1, 2024, but allow the accumulated credit to be claimed after that date; prohibit the Department of Revenue from considering any settlement agreement between the department and any taxpayer having distilled spirits in a bonded warehouse to be null and void; allow the agreement to be
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Osborne
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 148) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to governmental transactions. [HB-393]
Amend KRS 45A.490, 45A.492, and 45A.494 to change subject entities from public agencies to governmental bodies as defined in KRS 45A.030; amend KRS 82.083 to allow a city to sell or dispose of items without value; increase the limit from $5,000 to $10,000 at which a city may sell property for its appraised fair market value; and allow a city to give animals owned by a city that are no longer of use to the city to their handlers or trainers without compensation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to list a number of circumstances where a city,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Dixon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 63) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement funds of urban-county governments. [SB-206]
Amend KRS 67A.430 to increase the minimum monthly annuity from the Police and Fire Retirement Fund of urban-county governments to $1,500 per month effective July 1, 2023, except for those individuals receiving a non-occupational disability; make technical changes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 178) on 04/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to constables and declaring an emergency. [SB-278]
Amend KRS 16.060 granting all constables powers and immunities; amend KRS 61.310 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 64.060 granting all constables peace officer powers; amend KRS 70.430 removing certification qualification and make a technical correction to reporting requirements; remove reporting and fee sharing requirements with certain local governments; amend KRS 148.056 granting all constable powers within parks and granting equal immunity with sheriffs; amend KRS 277.280, 164.955, 183.881, 230.240, 281.765 and 446.010 to conform; amend
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle parking authorities. [SB-75]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67A to require a parking authority in an urban-county government to submit fees, rates, budgets, and budget amendments to the governing body of the urban-county government; establish administrative guidelines for implementation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 119) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to specialty courts. [HB-263]
Amend KRS 26A.400 to change the term "drug court" to "specialty court"; identify specialty court programs; amend KRS 439.315 to designate responsibility for collection of fees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to resources for local development. [HB-255]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "county"; grant any city or county the right to levy a restaurant tax not to exceed three percent of retail sales; require the revenue to be distributed between the tourist convention commission and taxing jurisdiction; specify uses; exempt restaurants subject to the restaurant tax from certain occupational license fees; mandate first-time tax rate levies and rate changes take effect at the beginning of a calendar month; amend 91A.400 to sunset the levy of a restaurant tax under this section; require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Smith
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [SB-111]
Amend KRS 212.420 to expand the requirements to serve as the director of health in counties containing a city of the first class; amend KRS 212.635 to expand the requirements to serve as the commissioner of health for an urban-county health department; amend KRS 212.790 to expand the requirements to serve as the director of an independent district board of health; amend KRS 212.350 to clarify that KRS 212.420 applies to consolidated local governments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 180) on 04/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reemployment of retired urban-county government police officers and declaring an emergency. [SB-89]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67A to authorize urban-county governments to reemploy police officers who have retired from the urban-county government Police and Fire Fund provided the retiree participated in the Law Enforcement Foundation Program, was a service retiree, had separated from employment for at least 30 days with no prearranged agreement to return to work for the urban-county government, and had no administrative charges pending at retirement; provide that retired police officers reemployed under this section shall be hired for
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 102) on 03/24/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging LEXPARK to collaborate with the Lexington Fayette Urban-County Government with ample public and government input to ensure that downtown parking rates and enforcement hours are the lowest possible. [SR-67]
Encourage LEXPARK to collaborate with the Lexington Fayette Urban-County Government with ample public and government input to ensure that downtown parking rates and enforcement hours are the lowest possible.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To Senate Floor on 02/09/2023