Disasters
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster response businesses and employees. [HB-433]
Amend KRS 141.020 and 141.040, relating to the exclusions from income tax earned by nonresident disaster response employees and businesses, to remove the sunset date of January 1, 2025.
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AN ACT relating to the emergency powers of the Governor. [SB-133]
Amend KRS 39A.010 to remove potential, threatened, or impending occurrences from enumerated emergency management system items; amend KRS 39A.020 to define "executive action" to include all orders and guidelines, including industry-specific or agency specific guidelines related to a declared emergency; amend KRS 39A.030 to remove hazards from list of enumerated items that the emergency management program is responsible; amend KRS 39A.050 to limit the powers of the Division of Emergency Management; amend KRS Chapter 39A.070 to prohibit the director
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Emergency Management. [HB-2515]
Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Contractors. [SB-2981]
Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Solicitation Of Funds From The Public. [SB-2983]
Beginning 1/1/2026, authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to regulate charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities. Includes provisions relating to the misuse of funds. Imposes vicarious liability upon a platform charity for a charitable fundraising platform's misuse of funds, and vice versa. Takes effect 1/1/2026. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Emergency Management. [HB-2188]
Prohibits residential rent increases in affected areas for an unspecified period after a severe storm warning or issuance of an emergency proclamation.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Emergency Management. [SB-2908]
Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or terminate a state of emergency. Clarifies when proclamations take effect. Prohibits residential rent increases in areas subject to emergency declarations or severe weather warnings. Shortens and clarifies the duration of price control periods and the prohibition against residential-tenancy terminations. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Insurance. [HB-2013]
Establishes personal property insurance coverage, home inventory, and claims and appeals requirements for insurers issuing homeowners policies in cases where a policyholder experiences total loss of an owner-occupied resident, including its contents, as a result of an event that has been declared a disaster by the governor.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Disasters. [HB-63]
Short form bill relating to disasters.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT amending the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-262]
Amend the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to implement a cap for disaster or emergency aid funds under the Military Affairs budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024 and for the necessary government expense under the Adult Correctional Institutions budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurrence of disasters. [HCR-31]
Urge local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurance of disasters.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION solemnly recognizing the 11th anniversary of the March 2, 2012, tornadoes and offering sincerest condolences to the families of the 22 Kentuckians who lost their lives as a result. [HR-79]
Solemnly recognize the 11th anniversary of the March 2, 2012, tornadoes and offer sincerest condolences to the families of the 22 Kentuckians who lost their lives as a result.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state property and declaring an emergency. [HB-579]
Amend KRS 56.100, 56.120 and 56.160, to increase the self-insured retention amounts of the state fire and tornado insurance fund from $1 million to $10 million; amend KRS 56.180 to raise the fund balance threshold for when moneys will be transferred to the general fund from $10 million to $100 million until June 30, 2025; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to moneys appropriated to the EKSAFE and WKSAFE funds. [HB-446]
Amend KRS 39A.303 and 39A.305 to allow moneys in the EKSAFE fund and the WKSAFE fund, respectively, to be used as loans for the replacement, renovation, or expansion of certain police, fire, and ambulance stations.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the East Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies fund. [SB-286]
Amend KRS 39A.303, relating to the EKSAFE fund, to allow funds to cover new construction within the 100-year floodplain.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the emergency powers of the Governor. [SB-273]
Amend KRS 39A.100 to remove certain emergency powers of the Governor including seizing, taking, or condemning property or making compensation for the seized property; remove provision allowing the Governor to declare curfews and prohibit the sale or consumption of goods; remove the provision allowing the Governor, upon recommendation of the Secretary of State to set a different time or place for holding elections in an area for which a state of emergency has been declared; amend KRS 117.015 to remove the requirement that the State Board of Elections
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster response. [SB-197]
Amend 39A.030 to make a technical correction.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special purpose funds and declaring an emergency. [HB-344]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to define "relief fund"; direct government agency head, cabinet secretary, or appointed official to provide a report and analysis of all relief funds created to accept and expend funds recieved from any source to provide assistance to entities impacted by an emergency; direct report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by the end of each fiscal year; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-303]
Amend KRS 11.200 and 12.020 to rename the Office of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation to the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation within the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 12.020 to rename the Department for Business Development to the Department for Business and Community Development, the Incentive Administration Division to the Program Administration Division, the Office of Marketing and Public Affairs to the Office of Strategy and Public Affairs, the Communications Division to the Marketing and Communications Division,
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster relief funding and declaring an emergency. [SB-99]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to define "relief fund"; direct government agency head, cabinet secretary, or appointed official to provide a report and analysis of all relief funds created to accept and expend funds recieved from any source to provide assistance to entities impacted by an emergency; direct report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by the end of each fiscal year; EMERGENCY.