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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the collection of fees in a county containing a consolidated local government. [SB-52]
Amend KRS 64.012 to require the document storage fee to be held in a separate fund by the county clerk in a county containing a consolidated local government; specify uses for the fee revenue; and require reporting; amend KRS 137.115 to require in a county with a consolidated local government that specific license fees be payable to an agency of the consolidated local government as designated by its council.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 189) on 04/11/2023
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AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-19]
Amend KRS 83A.045, 118.165, and 118A.060 to change the filing deadline for certain candidates for election from the first Friday following the first Monday in January to the last Tuesday in January; amend various sections of KRS to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Schickel
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the environment. [HB-140]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, are the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people; provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation. [HB-105]
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of the real property that is assessed after the later of the year the owner turned 65 or the year the owner purchased the property; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
Introduced In House on 01/05/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transfer of property on death. [HB-72]
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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interests in property. [HB-83]
Amend KRS 426.720 to require judgment lien notices to contain the date of final judgment; establish expiration dates for judgment liens; provide that a judgment lien expiration may be postponed under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 177) on 04/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-50]
Amend KRS 67.060 to require the office of county commissioner to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.040 to require the office of mayor and legislative body members to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.045 to require all city offices to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.100 to require the city ward to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.200 to require the offices of boards of education to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.210
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Lockett
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 03/02/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to personalized motor vehicles license plates. [HB-38]
Amend KRS 186.174 to allow personalized vehicle license plates to be issued to recreational vehicles registered under KRS 186.050(11); amend KRS 186.162 to set fees for such license plates and change extra fees to match their initial fee upon renewal.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Transportation (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-34]
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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation. [SB-34]
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of the real property that is assessed after the later of the year the owner turned 65 or the year the owner purchased the property; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/05/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-50]
Amend KRS 67.060 to require the office of county commissioner to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.040 to require the office of mayor and legislative body members to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.045 to require all city offices to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.100 to require the city ward to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.200 to require the offices of boards of education to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.210
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/05/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to personalized license plates, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-23]
Amend KRS 186.174, regarding personalized license plates, to eliminate fees for a personalized standard issue license plate in excess of those identified in KRS 186.162; require the Transportation Cabinet to refund any fees for personalized license plates in excess of the fees identified in KRS 186.162 that were paid between July 14, 2022, and the effective date of the Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Introduced In House on 01/03/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-23]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to require that a risk-limiting audit be performed upon the closing of the polls in order to certify the election; amend KRS 117.001 to change the definition of "risk-limiting audit"; amend KRS 117.275 to include additional requirements for the counting and tabulation of ballots and for the certification of election results; amend KRS 117.066 and 117.295 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-16]
Amend KRS 117.125 to include additional requirements for voting systems; amend KRS 117.175 to include additional instructions for voter instruction cards; amend KRS 117.383 to require the State Board of Elections to include a voter notification program to notify a voter of the effect of casting multiple votes for a single office on a paper ballot; amend KRS 117.155 and 117.205 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-338]
Amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on at least any of the twelve working days and two Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.066 to require that each county board of elections petition for and use a vote center on election day.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-377]
Amend KRS 116.013 to define terms; amend 116.045 to require the State Board of Elections to create and make available multilingual voter registration forms, which are to be posted on the board's Web site and provided to the county clerk, require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to create, furnish, and process multilingual voter registration forms; amend KRS 117.001 to define terms; amend KRS 117.025 to require the State Board of Elections to establish a multilingual ballot hotline to be used for elections with requirements prescribed;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transportation. [SB-311]
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To Transportation (s) on 03/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote. [SB-334]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow voting rights to persons convicted of certain felonies; replace the language that prohibits idiots and insane persons from voting with contemporary language that instead prohibits persons from voting who are determined to be mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction and such determination has not been set aside; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/11/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to medical rights. [HB-697]
Propose to create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution to guarantee that the right of an individual to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, or prophylactic may not be questioned or interfered with; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to bail. [HB-754]
Propose to amend Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow holding a person after arrest without bail when a judge finds, following a hearing, that the person may flee or poses an imminent danger to self or to others; provide ballot question with proposed amendment; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022