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signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 16, 2017

SB 117: AN ACT relating to alternative certification. Amend KRS 161.010 to include definitions for "provisional certificates," "professional certificates," and "college or university work of graduate grade"; amend KRS 161.048 to allow a veteran with a bachelor's degree in any area to be issued a provisional teaching certificate if other criteria are met; require a passing score on the GRE or its equivalent for certification of a person in a field other than education to teach in elementary, middle, or secondary programs; provide that after successful completion of the internship program candidates shall receive a professional certificate and be subject to the same renewal requirements as any other teacher with a professional certificate; amend KRS 161.095 to delete language that restricts continuing education related to maintaining a certificate.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 14)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2017

HB 207: AN ACT relating to insurance. Create a new section of Subtitle 45 of KRS Chapter 304 to require independent directors of a risk retention group and an attorney-in-fact for a reciprocal insurer to adhere to the same standards; establish a one year waiting period to qualify as independent; establish standards for and approval by the commissioner of material service provider contracts; require adoption of written policy for board of director responsibilities in the plan of operation; require and establish standards for an audit committee; allow for a waiver by the commissioner of certain audit committee requirements; establish and require disclosure of governance standards; require reporting to the commisioner of material noncompliance with the provisions of the section for risk retention groups; amend KRS 304.45-020 to define "board of directors," "director," "material relationship," and "material service provider contract"; amend KRS 304.45-030 to require notice to the commissioner of any other subsequent material changes to a risk retention group's plan of operation or feasibility study and make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.45-040 and 304.45-060 to conform; repeal and reenact KRS 304.45-050 to adopt alternative model language from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 16)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 15, 2017

SB 106: AN ACT relating to educational programs. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop and implement the Kentucky Financial Literacy Program; require a high school student to complete instruction in financial literacy prior to graduation; create a new section KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop and implement the Kentucky Civic Literacy Program; require a high school student to complete instruction in civic literacy prior to graduation.

Recommitted to Education (S)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 15, 2017

SB 187: AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships. Amend KRS 45.763 to exempt capital projects using the public-private partnership delivery method for the use, purchase, or acceptance of real property of any value or equipment with a value over $400,000 from authorization by the General Assembly, up to the existing limit of $25 million in KRS 45A.077; amend KRS 45A.077 to extend notice periods and time for action on unsolicited proposals for capital projects; amend KRS 65.028 to allow some members of the Kentucky Local Government Public-Private Partnership Board to send designees instead of appearing in person; exempt agreements with a value less than thirty percent of the local government general fund revenues from being submitted to the Kentucky Local Government Public-Private Partnership Board; amend KRS 175B.015 to remove the requirement for quarterly meetings of the state authority if a bi-state or project authority exists; amend KRS 175B.020 to remove the commitment to pay costs incurred in evaluation of unsolicited proposal and implement a standardized fee set by administrative regulation; require costs paid by an unsolicited proposer to be negotiated in an agreement between the state authority and the proposer; amend various statutes to prohibit proposals that seek or purport to bind any future General Assembly to appropriate any moneys.

Recommitted to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 15, 2017

SB 242: AN ACT relating to cost-of-living adjustments for pension plans for former cities of the third class. Amend KRS 90.410, 95.560, and 95.624 to allow former cities of the third class adopting a pension fund program prior to August 1, 1988, to provide an annual cost-of-living adjustment in an amount equal to the increase in the cost-of-living increase for a recipient of Social Security or the increase in the consumer price index as computed by the Department of Local Government up the current maximum of five percent.

Recommitted to State & Local Government (S)
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