Economic Development - Success Assurance Model and Fund - Establishment [SB-969]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Success Assurance Model in the Department of Commerce to provide comprehensive and targeted business services to small businesses through professional services entities; establishing the Success Assurance Fund to award grants to certain coordinating services providers, which shall be disbursed as payment to professional services entities selected to provide business services; requiring in fiscal year 2025, the Governor to include $4,000,000 for the Fund in the annual budget bill; etc.
SB-969: Economic Development - Success Assurance Model and Fund - Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory McCray
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/28/2023
AN ACT relating to the regulation of skill games and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-525]
[Gaming ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define terms; create the Kentucky Gaming Commission and attach it to the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; establish requirements for the commissioner and members on the commission; authorize the commission to establish and maintain an office in Frankfort; require the Auditor of Public Accountants to perform an annual audit of the commission; require the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish standard forms for the reporting of financial conditions,
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HB-525: AN ACT relating to the regulation of skill games and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
AN ACT relating to workforce development. [HB-586]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 151B.290 to include the executive director/CEO of the Kentucky League of Cities in the Kentucky Education and Workforce Collaborative.
HB-586: AN ACT relating to workforce development.
Sponsored by: Rep. Russell Webber
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 90) on 03/24/2023
AN ACT relating to professional employer organizations. [HB-394]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Insurance ]
[Unemployment ]
Amend KRS 336.236 to change the financial statement requirements for a professional employer organization's initial and renewal registration; provide that initial registration shall be valid for one fiscal year for any professional employer organization that completed its initial prior to July 15, 2024; amend KRS 336.238 to include professional employer organization groups; amend KRS 336.240 to include annual renewal registrations in the financial statement requirements; amend KRS 336.248 to require a professional employer organization to submit
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HB-394: AN ACT relating to professional employer organizations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 88) on 03/24/2023
AN ACT relating to radon testing and mitigation and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-306]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to adjust statutory range; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to require licensed child-care centers to be tested for radon at least once every five years as part of their initial licensure and license renewal; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to encourage that specific radon measurement devices be used when licensed child-care centers are tested for radon; require the most current report to be posted in a public place within the child-care center; amend KRS 309.434 to establish new duties for the
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HB-306: AN ACT relating to radon testing and mitigation and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/15/2023
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-303]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Energy ]
[Tourism ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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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HB-303: AN ACT relating to economic development.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Branscum
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 75) on 03/23/2023
State Procurement – Preferences – Historically Underutilized Business Zone Businesses [SB-908]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underutilized business zone businesses; providing for the determination of expected historically underutilized business zone business participation for individual solicitations; including certain historically underutilized business zone businesses in the Small Business Reserve Program; etc.
SB-908: State Procurement – Preferences – Historically Underutilized Business Zone Businesses
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Rereferred To Budget And Taxation on 04/05/2023