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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the retirement benefits of city elected officials and declaring an emergency. [SB-158]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 61.637 to allow a mayor or member of a city legislative body who does not have service credit in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) for his or her service to the city to retire and draw benefits from CERS for other covered employment without resigning from his or her position as mayor or member of a city legislative body; make technical amendments to conform to recent court decision; amend KRS 78.540 to provide that a mayor or member of a city legislative body who has been required to participate in CERS due to other covered
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/11/2019
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AN ACT relating to commercial mobile radio service charges and declaring an emergency. [SB-141]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Amend KRS 65.7636 to remove the ability of Lifeline providers to bill and collect the CMRS service charge levied under the section from end users; make conforming changes; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/07/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state contracts and declaring an emergency. [SB-143]
[Trade ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Economic Development ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to prohibit governmental bodies from contracting with a contractor who engages in boycotting a person or entity with which Kentucky can enjoy open trade; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 058) on 03/25/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sheriffs and declaring an emergency. [SB-103]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 64.090 to allow sheriffs to charge $25 for the handling of an impounded vehicle and $25 per day for the storage of an impounded vehicle; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 046) on 03/22/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agency cessation of participation in the Kentucky Retirement Systems and declaring an emergency. [SB-10]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 61.522 to allow universities, community colleges, and health departments to cease participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System provided the agency pays the cost of ceasing participation as provided by statute; provide a window where quasi-state agencies who are eligible to cease participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or non-stock non-profit agencies eligible to cease participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) may by December 31, 2019, cease participating by paying the actuarial costs
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
Taken From State & Local Government (s) on 02/25/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-76]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to specify definitions for "assault weapons," "large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices," "bump stocks," and "ammunition sellers"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; and to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transfer of a bump stock; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to resale certificates for sales and use tax and declaring an emergency. [HB-73]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 139.010, 139.260, 139.270, 139.280, and 139.720 to exclude services taxed by KRS 139.200 from tax when being resold; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships. [HB-61]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 164.7884 to allow KEES funds to be used for qualified workforce training programs; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 186) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-58]
[Taxes ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110; apply retroactively for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018; require the Department of Revenue to automatically issue refunds; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Received In Senate on 03/14/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Educators Employment Liability Insurance Program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-508]
[Education ]
[Insurance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish the Educators Employment Liability Insurance Program for certified employees of public schools; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; appropriate $7,000,000 for the program for fiscal year 2019-2020; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Floor Amendment (5) Filed To Committee Substitute, Floor Amendment (6-title) Filed on 03/14/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the human rights of unborn children to not be discriminated against and declaring an emergency. [HB-5]
[Reproductive Rights ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit an abortion if the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion, in whole or in part, because of an unborn child's sex, race, color, national origin, or disability, except in the case of a medical emergency; require physicians to certify a lack of knowledge that the pregnant woman's intent to seek an abortion was, in whole or in part, because of an unborn child's sex, race, color, national origin, or disability; require the State Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a physician's license to practice medicine
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 037) on 03/19/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-457]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow individuals who become members of the General Assembly on or after April 1, 2019, to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly; allow members of the General Assembly who began contributing to the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System prior to April 1, 2019, to make a one-time irrevocable election by December 31, 2019, to discontinue
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Goforth
To State Government (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency legislation and declaring an emergency. [HB-432]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to define "emergency legislation"; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Maria Sorolis
To State Government (h) on 02/20/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development tax credits and declaring an emergency. [HB-431]
[Economic Development ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 141.403 to sunset the tax credit; amend KRS 141.415 to remove references and application to the Kentucky Reinvestment Act projects; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide for the Kentucky Reinvestment Act tax credit and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; create a new section in Subchapter 26 of KRS Chapter 154 to sunset the program; amend KRS 154.34-010 to modify the definitions; amend KRS 154.34-070 to add a three-year project completion timeframe for final approval and alter the requirements to the application;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/20/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to asbestos trust claims and declaring an emergency. [HB-362]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Crime ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Create an new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define "asbestos action," "asbestos trust," "trust claims materials," and "trust governance documents"; require plaintiffs in an asbestos action to provide certain information and documents not less than 180 days before the initial date set for trial; establish that plaintiffs have a continuing duty to supplement the information and documents; establish requirements for an order requiring a plaintiff to file additional asbestos trust claims; establish that defendants may seek discovery from an asbestos
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
To Judiciary (h) on 02/15/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-358]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to provide that postsecondary education institutions may voluntarily cease participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) by paying the actuarial costs of ceasing participation; require institutions to file request to cease participation by December 31, 2019; define "postsecondary institutions" as Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University, the Kentucky Community
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Vetoed on 04/09/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-314]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.785 to include criteria to review when completing a management audit; require the chief state school officer to provide a local district with written deficiencies found through the management audit and corrective actions and a time frame for completion in order to exit assistance; specify that a district can only be a "state managed district" after at least two years of unsuccessful assistance, criminal malfeasance, or insolvency; restrict the chief state school officer's authority during state management to only those specific items
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Education (h) on 02/12/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the registration of motorboats and declaring an emergency. [HB-304]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amend KRS 235.040 to require motorboats documented with the Coast Guard to display an identifying number issued by federal law and a validation sticker issued by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but not a Kentucky identification number; amend KRS 235.070 to require motorboats documented with the Coast Guard to submit a copy of the certificate of documentation with the application for registration; exempt from titling provisions; require registration with the Commonwealth; amend KRS 235.120 to require validation sticker be issued and displayed on motorboat's
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Carney
Posted In Committee on 02/13/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the retirement benefits of city elected officials and declaring an emergency. [HB-290]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 61.637 to allow a mayor or member of a city legislative body who does not have service credit in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) for his or her service to the city to retire and draw benefits from CERS for other covered employment without resigning from his or her position as mayor or member of a city legislative body; make technical amendments to conform to recent court decision; amend KRS 78.540 to provide that a mayor or member of a city legislative body who has been required to participate in CERS due to other covered
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
To Local Government (h) on 02/11/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-281]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 068) on 03/25/2019