AN ACT relating to First Responder, Doctor, Nurse, and Health Care Professional Recognition Day.
Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the first Saturday of October of each year as "First Responder, Doctor, Nurse, and Health Care Professional Recognition Day"; require the Governor to proclaim the date each year and require state flags to be lowered to half-mast on state public buildings from sunrise to sunset on that day.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House Passage
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 6, 2022
Last action Mar 30, 2022
Floor votes · House Mar 1, 2022
How they voted
91–0
Passed
Total votes 91
Mar 1, 2022
D
Democratic25
100% Yea
R
Republican66
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Mar 29, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
lower
Mar 9, 2022
Committee
to State & Local Government (S)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 1, 2022
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 98-0
lower
Feb 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
lower
Feb 23, 2022
Committee
to Health & Family Services (H)
lower
Jan 6, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Jan 6, 2022
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
8 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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