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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to land use. [HB-574]
Amend KRS 82.660 to require that before an overlay district can be enforced that a petition must be circulated that contains the signatures of at least 75% of the property owners within the area that is sought to be under the jurisdiction of the overlay district, and specify that once the overlay district is created that all property owners are to be notified by first-class mail that they may still opt out of the controls enforced by the overlay district, and set out the response procedure; create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require that
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stan Lee
Posted In Committee on 03/05/2020
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AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-638]
Omnibus paper ballots bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public utilities. [HB-584]
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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Harris
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 03/04/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to canines. [HB-512]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to enable local governments to legislate enforcement action for dogs and public safety, so long as that the ordinance, regulation, or policy does not regulate ownership of a dog by its breed or perceived breed and is consistent with state law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Local Government (h) on 03/02/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to resources for local development. [HB-470]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "base restaurant tax receipts," "merged governments" and " nonhighway transportation infrastructure"; grant any city, county, or merged government the right to levy a restaurant tax, subject to certain limitations; allow cities, counties, and merged governments levying a restaurant tax after the effective date to distribute at least 25 percent of revenues generated to the tourist and convention commission; specify uses; allow a consolidated local government levying the tax the option of distributing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rob Rothenburger
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the ad valorem taxation of privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity. [HB-452]
Amend KRS 132.195 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity in the list of leasehold interests exempt from state and local property taxation at the prevailing rate; amend KRS 132.020 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity in the list of property that is subject to a one-and-one-half-cent state property tax rate; amend KRS 132.200 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Posted In Committee on 03/12/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local government. [HB-384]
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 has been certified pursuant to KRS 15.380, 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Koenig
Posted In Committee on 02/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to duties of elected officials. [HB-342]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require that all elected county officers develop and maintain a records retention policy and an inventory policy for the elected office; establish a penalty for failure to comply.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Posted In Committee on 01/31/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local government parking citation enforcement. [HB-269]
Create a new section of KRS 82.600 to 82.640 to allow cities, urban-county governments, and consolidated local governments, through the passage of an ordinance, to receive goods for transfer to nonprofit charities, service organizations, and local government projects or programs serving the public in lieu either in whole or in part of civil fines assessed against parking violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educational requirements. [HB-220]
Amend KRS 160.1596 to prevent requiring public charter school authorizer to receive training until after receipt of a charter application.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Huff
Received In Senate on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fire districts. [HB-18]
Amend KRS 75.040 to deem that emergency ambulance service provided by a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict, is the primary emergency ambulance service within the district or subdistrict in the boundaries of the county containing the largest population within the district boundaries; add a method for boards of trustees to declare that the district or subdistrict is not the primary provider of emergency ambulance service within the district; declare status for secondary providers of emergency ambulance service;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the publication of local government legal advertisements. [HB-195]
Create a new section of KRS 424.110 to 424.370 to give local governments the option to post required advertisements online on a notice Web site operated by local government in lieu of newspaper publication, so long as a one-time advertisement is published in an actual newspaper; specify requirements for advertisements published on the notice Web site and in an actual newspaper; specify rights of public and duties of local government; set out consequences of local government's failure to publish as required by law; provide penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry Miller
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 87) on 04/14/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to federal immigration cooperation. [SB-1]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit law enforcement agencies, law enforcement officials, employees of a law enforcement agency or public agencies, public officials, or employees of a public agency or public institution operating under KRS Chapter 164 from enacting, adopting, or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy relating to immigration; require law enforcement officials, representatives, agents, and employees of law enforcement agencies, public officials, representatives, agents, and employees of public agencies to use their
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Returned To Judiciary (h) on 03/18/2020