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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force. [HCR-19]
[Cannabis ]
[Taxes ]
Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2023 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to study its licensing fee structure. [SJR-12]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Direct the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to study its licensing fee structure; report findings and recommendations to Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Floor Amendments (1) And (2-title) Filed on 03/16/2023
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to establish the Kentucky Natural Disaster and Tornado Relief and Response Task Force. [SCR-293]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Create the Kentucky Natural Disaster and Tornado Relief and Response Task Force to study the Commonwealth's and the federal government's emergency preparedness, response, and restoration efforts, and to make recommendations to increase emergency preparedness, response, and enhance restoration efforts; outline the membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Adopted By Voice Vote on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to examine and evaluate the feasibility of implementing an alternative rate mechanism (ARM) for public utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission. [HCR-138]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a study to examine the potential implementation of an alternative rate mechanism for setting utility rates for public utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission; require the final report of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 1, 2022; allow the Legislative Research Commission to alternatively assign the study issues to an interim joint committee or subcommittee thereof and to designate a study completion date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
Veto Sustained on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing a study to examine and evaluate the existing public funding and efficacy of workforce education and development programs in the Commonwealth. [SCR-168]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to hire a consultant or in the alternative have the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee study the existing public funding and efficacy of workforce education and development programs in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
Reported Favorably As A Consent Bill on 03/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-777]
[Healthcare ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311A.015 to create the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services as an independent agency of state government; change membership of the board; amend KRS 311A.020 to change complaint investigations of ambulance services; delete language relating to transfer of the board to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; amend KRS 311A.025 to permit hospitals exempt from certificate of need to provide transport services; amend KRS 311A.030 require distinguishing between emergency-only transportation and scheduled ambulance transportation;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 126) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to welfare and family services. [HB-7]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Poverty ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish that the terms "cash assistance" and "public assistance" do not include foster care, kinship care, fictive kin care, or relative placement payments; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to conduct annual analysis of expenditures related to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; provide for the allocation of unobligated TANF funds; establish restrictions on the use of cash assistance benefits; require the cabinet to utilize a single electronic benefit transfer
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 211) on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Task Force on Election Security. [SCR-157]
[Elections ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Ethics ]
Create the Task Force on Election Security to examine the security of Kentucky elections, examine current election security processes in place and actions by other states, and investigate the use of statewide risk limiting audits; outline the membership; require the task force to meet at least 4 times during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coal-derived carbon and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-647]
[Energy ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Science ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Mining ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 152 to define "CAER"; require CAER to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for carbon engineering solutions to enable new uses for coal-derived carbon; require CAER submit annual report to the Legislative Research Commission on the progress and results of the program; define eligible company; require CAER to act jointly with an eligible company to study the feasibility of the commercialization of coal fly ash and coal-derived carbon products; to file a report with the Legislative Research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
Introduced In House on 02/28/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Early Childhood Education Task Force. [SCR-142]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create the Early Childhood Education Task Force to conduct a comprehensive review of the early childhood caregiving and educational structures and operations in the Commonwealth; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; and require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Adopted 35-0 on 03/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force. [HCR-83]
[Cannabis ]
[Taxes ]
Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/17/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force. [SCR-133]
[Cannabis ]
[Taxes ]
Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey
To Judiciary (s) on 02/22/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Debt Affordability Task Force. [HCR-81]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
Create the Debt Affordability Task Force to study Kentucky’s non-pension debt obligations; report recommendations and findings by December 1.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Introduced In House on 02/16/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administration Task Force. [SCR-20]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Create the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administrative Task Force to study the organizational structure, operations, and administration of programs, polices, and procedures within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; and require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Received In House on 01/24/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish a working group to study the taxation of the horse industry and gambling. [HCR-75]
[Gaming ]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Horse Industry and Gaming Taxation Working Group; require the Legislative Research Commission to consider and approve the working group membership; require monthly working group meeting during the 2021 Interim of the General Assembly; require a report on the working group's findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Introduced In House on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Juvenile Handgun Violence Prevention Task Force. [SCR-116]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Request that the Legislative Research Commission create the Juvenile Handgun Violence Prevention Task Force to study the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to juvenile handgun violence in Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
Introduced In Senate on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study the impact of administrative regulations on the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [SCR-106]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the effect of administrative regulations on the Commonwealth of Kentucky; require findings to be reported to the Interim Joint Committees on State Government and Appropriations and Revenue by December 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
Introduced In Senate on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create a task force to study policing in the Commonwealth. [SCR-104]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Create the Task Force on Policing in the Commonwealth to study and make recommendations related to role of law enforcement and the relationship to the communities they serve; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least three times during the 2021 interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Introduced In Senate on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create a legislative workgroup on returning women and mothers to work who are unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [HCR-62]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Unemployment ]
Create a Legislative workgroup to study the impact of COVID-19 on Kentucky women and mothers in the workforce.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/11/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the Task Force on Economic Effects of Casino Gambling and Cannabis Legalization. [HCR-63]
[Cannabis ]
[Gaming ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
Create the Task Force on Economic Effects of Casino Gambling and Recreational Marijuana Legalization to study economic effects of legalization of casino gambling and cannabis on governments, corrections, judiciary, small business, wages, and employment; establish task force membership; require five meeting of the task force during the 2021 interim and report findings to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
Introduced In House on 02/11/2021