introduced · Kentucky · Senate Feb 22, 2017 SR 125: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Burton. Adopted by voice vote Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017 HB 181: AN ACT relating to municipal electric authorities. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 to permit municipal utilities to join together to buy and sell electricity and natural gas; specify elements of an agreement to create a municipal electric authority; determine what powers an authority will have, including the power to undertake projects, bonding, and other borrowing power; specify limits to financial transactions; amend KRS 45A.365 and 424.260 to conform; cite as Municipal Electric Authority Act. Posted in committee Track
introduced · Kentucky · Senate Feb 22, 2017 SR 26: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joyce O'Neil Compton. Adopted by voice vote Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 22, 2017 SR 122: Urge Congress to pass the Miners Protection Act. To Natural Resources & Energy (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017 HR 9: Urge the United States Environmental Protection Agency to prioritize compliance assistance over current enforcement practices. 3rd reading, passed 80-15 Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017 HB 260: AN ACT relating to civil rights. Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of reasonable accommodations, accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; amend KRS 344.040 to make an unlawful practice for employers who fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. Posted in committee Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017 HCR 127: Encourage public school districts to reconsider any form of sanctuary or safe haven status and refrain from enforcing such a policy on instructors and volunteers of any Junior ROTC program. To Education (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SJR 103: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to change the signs designating the Clarence Edward Tackett and Billy Wayne Bridgeman bridges in Virgie, Kentucky, to indicate that these men were casualties of the Vietnam War. To Transportation (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 505: AN ACT relating to electric service. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define "single-family farm" and direct retail electric suppliers to charge no more than residential rates for service provided to single-family farms. To Natural Resources & Energy (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 485: AN ACT relating to possession and trafficking of controlled substances. Amend KRS 218A.135 to state that a defendant charged with an offense under KRS Chapter 218A may be detained for up to 72 hours at the judge's discretion. To Judiciary (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 496: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. Amend KRS 520.010 to remove definition of "dangerous contraband"; amend KRS 520.050 to make promoting any contraband a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.045 to conform; repeal KRS 520.060. To Judiciary (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 438: AN ACT relating to electric generating units. Create a new section of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224 to allocate ten percent of carbon dioxide emissions allocated to the Commonwealth of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. sec. 7411 (the Clean Air Act) to certain counties; establish the criteria by which counties with a coal-fired electric generating unit that retires after 2010 and before 2026 shall receive a percentage of the emission allowances; require that 50 percent of the emission allowances allocated to the utilities in the Commonwealth be returned to their ratepayers if their allowances equal their emissions; require that if the utilities sell the allowances that all proceeds of the sale be returned to the ratepayers. To Natural Resources & Energy (H) Track