HR 131: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert L. Madon.
Adopted by voice vote
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HJR 124: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to place signs honoring the Lynn Camp High School Cheer Team, 2018 All "A" State Champions.
To Transportation (H)
HB 287: AN ACT relating to powers of appointment. Establish KRS Chapter 390 and create new sections thereof to define various terms; specify the governing law over a power of appointment; state that common law supplements this chapter; outline the creation of a power of appointment; prohibit the transfer of a power of appointment; specify general presumptions upon a power of appointment's creation; make an exception to the general presumption about a power of appointment; define "adverse party"; allow a donor to revoke or amend a power of appointment in certain instances; state when a power of appointment may be exercised; provide that a residuary clause manifests a powerholder's intent to exercise a power of appointment; state that a blanket-exercise clause extends to a power acquired by the powerholder after executing the instrument containing the clause; require substantial compliance with a formal requirement of appointment; outline permissible appointments; provide that appointment to a deceased appointee is ineffective and appointment to an impermissible appointee is ineffective; require a powerholder's intent be carried out in cases of selective allocation; establish the procedure for disposition of property ineffectively appointed; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised general power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised nongeneral power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property if partial appointment is to the taker in default; provide for the disposition of property appointed to the taker in default; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend an exercise; allow a powerholder to disclaim a power of appointment or contract to appoint or not appoint any property subject to the power; allow a powerholder to release a power of appointment; state the method in which a powerholder may release a power of appointment; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend a release of power; allow a powerholder of a presently exercisable power of appointment and a not presently exercisable power of appointment to contract; establish a remedy for a powerholder's breach of a contract to appoint or not to appoint appointive property; outline the rights of a powerholder's creditors in appointive property; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is general; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is nongeneral; require uniformity of interpretation and application with regards to other states that have enacted this Act; specify how the enactment of this Act affects existing powers of appointment; provide that KRS Chapter 390 may be known as the Kentucky Uniform Powers of Appointment Act; amend KRS 381.225 to provide that a new perpetuities period may be started when a power of appointment is exercised, if the person exercising the power so provides; amend KRS 381.226 to exclude any interest in property created by the exercise of a special power of appointment granted by an instrument that was irrevocable on September 25, 1985, from being construed as requiring the interests to vest within the period specified in KRS 381.224, 381.225, and 381.226; repeal KRS 386.095, 394.060, and 394.070.
Posted in committee
HB 295: AN ACT relating to pay lakes. Amend KRS 150.660 to set out Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources pay lake regulatory authority; require pay lakes to be licensed by the department; specify pay lake license revocation procedures; amend KRS 150.990 to delete pay lake fine reference.
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)
HB 297: AN ACT relating to state employee pay equity. Amend KRS 7.100 to require the Legislative Research Commission to transmit pay equity information on its employees to the Secretary of Personnel by August 1 of each year; amend KRS 18A.030 to require the Secretary of Personnel to compile pay equity information on executive branch employees by August 1 of each year, to compile a report on gender pay equity for the legislative and executive branches of state government by December 1 of each year, and to transmit the report to the Legislative Research Commission.
To State Government (H)
HB 288: AN ACT relating to property and trusts. Create a new section of Chapter 386 and provide definitions related to the creation of a community property trust; provide the requirements for the creation of a community property trust by spouses; provide what spouses may agree on and provide in writing related to community property trusts; enumerate what happens to a community property trust upon the death of a spouse; amend KRS 141.010 to provide federal tax guidelines related to community property trusts; amend KRS 386.175 to provide that a second trust may be created from an original trust whose terms have been modified pursuant to KRS 386.175; create a new section of KRS Chapter 396 to provide that certain creditor's claims are barred six months after the appointment of a personal representative after the decedent's death; amend KRS 396.011 to conform.
Posted in committee
HB 269: AN ACT relating to divorce. Amend KRS 403.044 to state that no testimony can be taken in divorce actions involving minor children of the marriage until one year has elapsed; amend KRS 403.140 to add a divorce and co-parenting education requirement before a divorce can occur when the marriage at issue involves minor children.
Posted in committee
HB 284: AN ACT relating to high-cost home loans. Amend KRS 360.100 to update references to federal law and to provide exemptions for initial construction loans and short-term "bridge" loans to match federal regulation.
To Banking & Insurance (H)
HR 121: Honor and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fort Knox.
Adopted by voice vote
HJR 120: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Harlan County in memory of William Stevens and erect the appropriate signage.
To Transportation (H)
HB 286: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Community and Technical College endowment match fund; transfer $3 million annually to the fund from general fund; authorize promulgation of administrative regulations.
To Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Sponsors
Russell Webber
(R)
,
Jim DuPlessis
(R)
,
Robby Mills
(R)
,
Rocky Adkins
(D)
,
Susan Westrom
(D)
+11 more
HB 285: AN ACT relating to transient room taxes. Amend KRS 91A.390, 91A.392, 153.440, and 153.450 to limit the imposition of local transient room taxes to rents for occupancy of 30 days or less; amend KRS 142.400 to limit the imposition of the statewide transient room tax to rents for occupancy of 30 days or less; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2018.
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)
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