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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to 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-602]
Appropriates funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 64) on 04/04/2024
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AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-588]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 161 to remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created and adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636, relating to university and nonuniversity members; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately prior to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency. [HB-580]
Amends KRS 116.112 to allow the Secretary of State to enter into agreements on behalf of the State Board of Elections to further voter list maintenance practices, and to require that a voter confirm that his or her residence has changed; amends KRS 117.035 to provide that appointed members of a county board of elections shall serve four-year terms that expire June 30 of the year following a presidential election, to provide that a member of the county board of elections appointed by the State Board of Elections may be removed for just cause, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 224) on 04/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property valuation administrators, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-577]
Amend KRS 132.590 to find and determine that property valuations administrators are officers whose jurisdiction and duties are coextensive to that of the state within the meaning of Section 246 of the Constitution; update the salary schedule; prohibit PVAs' salaries from exceeding that in the Constitution; provide that certain PVAs who did not receive an eight percent raise and who are still in office shall receive a lump-sum payment of eight percent of the sum they received for the time between the effective date of the Act and July 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to ownership fees for hybrid vehicles or hybrid motorcycles and declaring an emergency. [HB-531]
Amend KRS 138.475 to exclude hybrid vehicles and hybrid motorcycles from the ownership fee paid annually when registering an electric or hybrid vehicle; amend KRS 186.010 and 186.050 to conform; make technical corrections; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development and declaring an emergency. [HB-533]
Amends KRS 103.240 to include the payment of working capital expenditures as an allowable use for moneys received from the sale of bonds; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 128) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of a grant program to promote investments in Kentucky businesses, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-524]
Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2024; allow the Cabinet for Economic Development to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund; allow no more than $50 million of grants to be awarded as state matching capital for investments in growth businesses; establish the rural jobs development fund; appropriate $50 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Rural Jobs Development Fund; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2024;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school boards and declaring an emergency. [HB-510]
Amend KRS 160.280 to increase the total annual maximum of per diem and reimbursed expenses from $6,000 to $8,000; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 02/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-499]
Repeals and reenacts KRS 157.069 to define terms, to require the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify CTE programs or pathways as high cost or general cost, to provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for CTE based 60 percent upon weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40 percent upon specified incentives, to provide that state-operated area technology center operating costs be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE, to allows funds to
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 210) on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-192]
Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
To Education (s) on 02/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education funding and declaring an emergency. [SB-191]
Amends KRS 164.092 to define “nontraditional age students,” to remove all references to “minority,” to require that any formula not include race-based metrics or targets, to increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 percent to 40 percent, to decrease the percentage of public university funding for student credit hours earned from 35 percent to 30 percent, to include in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System’s student success outcomes weighting for credentials aligned with
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 196) on 04/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school district property and declaring an emergency. [HB-464]
Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring prior approval of the district's plans; prohibit a project for new school buildings from spending more than 10 percent of the project on the acquisition and improvement of land; provide a waiver process; amend KRS 156.160 to require the administrative regulation promulgated by the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to settlements with minors and declaring an emergency. [SB-158]
Amends KRS 387.278, relating to certain settlements with minors, to establish provisions relating to the opening of restricted accounts and issuance of annuities on behalf of minors entering into settlements; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.16) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-457]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; 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; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency. [HB-455]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish requirements for persons delivering alcoholic beverages on behalf of a retail package licensee; amend KRS 241.066 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses to one license for every 2,000 residents in any wet county or urban-county government with more than 100,000 residents; amend KRS 241.069 to allow a city, county, or urban-county government to petition for an increase in the number of quota retail package licenses; amend KRS 242.021 to prohibit a city or urban-county government from
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Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to counties and declaring an emergency. [HB-456]
Amends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments regarding working hours; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 86) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transportation of students and declaring an emergency. [HB-447]
Amends KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned, leased, or contracted passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school and approved school activities under an alternative transportation plan approved by the Kentucky Department of Education, to provide that vehicles shall be operated by an employee or contractor of local school district who is licensed to operate a motor vehicle within the Commonwealth, and to provide that the department shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish minimum
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.35) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency. [SB-147]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Floor Amendment (2) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Women Veterans Appreciation Day and declaring an emergency. [HB-410]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate June 12 of each year as Women Veterans Appreciation Day in the Commonwealth; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency. [HB-402]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024