AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency.
Summary
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 executive orders and deliver that list to the LRC; require executive orders to expire 90 days after the expiration of a Governor's final term of office; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require administrative bodies to expire 90 days after the end of the final term of the official who created them; amend KRS 11.160 to reduce the time the Governor or other appointing authority has to deliver letters of appointment to the LRC from seven calendar days to two working days; EMERGENCY.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 3, 2022
Last action Apr 14, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 14, 2022
How they voted
25–7
Passed
Total votes 32
Mar 14, 2022
D
Democratic6
100% Nay
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
9
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Apr 14, 2022
Introduced
floor amendments (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7-title) filed
upper
Mar 30, 2022
Introduced
floor amendment (2) filed
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Committee
to State Government (H)
lower
Mar 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Upper · Passed
3rd reading, passed 27-8 with Floor Amendment (1)
upper
Mar 11, 2022
Upper · Passed
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
upper
Mar 11, 2022
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
upper
Mar 9, 2022
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Committee
to State & Local Government (S)
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Introduced
introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Steve West
RRepublican
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