AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-338]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
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.
SB-338: AN ACT relating to elections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/07/2022
AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency. [SB-4]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require executive orders to be identified by year and subject areas and to be filed with the Secretary of State; require the Secretary of State to forward executive orders to the director of the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) on the date filed; create a process for legislative committees to review and object to executive orders; require the LRC to draft a bill each regular session to declare executive orders which have been objected to void; require the Governor to annually compile a list of all effective
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SB-4: AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Floor Amendments (3), (4), (5), (6) And (7-title) Filed on 04/14/2022
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-377]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Data Privacy ]
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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SB-377: AN ACT relating to elections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/07/2022
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote. [SB-334]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
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.
SB-334: AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/11/2022
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to medical rights. [HB-697]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
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.
HB-697: AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to medical rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to bail. [HB-754]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Elections ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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.
HB-754: AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to bail.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022