in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HJR 92: Designate the Sergeant James A. Sherrill Memorial Highway in Meade County. To Transportation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SB 234: AN ACT relating to victim privacy. Amend KRS 17.150 to define "personally identifiable information" and "victim"; provide that records with a victim's personally identifiable information must be redacted before being accessed for public inspection; amend KRS 61.878 to state that portions of records containing a victim's personally identifiable information are excluded from the open records Act, except upon a court order; amend KRS 61.884 to state that a public record containing a victim's personally identifiable information must be redacted prior to being accessed by the public. To Judiciary (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 491: AN ACT relating to the appointment of counsel. Amend KRS 620.100 to make the fee for court-appointed counsel in dependency, neglect, and abuse cases the same in District Court as in Family Court. To Judiciary (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 422: AN ACT relating to apprenticeships. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to declare a tax credit for the small businesses who have an apprenticeship program and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 343 to require the Department of Workplace Standards to certify to the Department of Revenue the small businesses with apprenticeship programs and set out purpose of the tax credit; and amend various sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to conform. To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 28: AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments. Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify the powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government, regarding home rule powers that do not conflict with the comprehensive plan. Posted in committee Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 411: AN ACT relating to the medical use of marijuana. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to allow physicians to recommend use of cannabis; hold physicians harmless for making the recommendation. To Judiciary (H) Track
introduced · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HR 123: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Lloyd Elliott Jr. Adopted by voice vote Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 456: AN ACT relating to labor and employment overtime provisions. Amend KRS 337.010 to set minimum standards for administrative, executive, supervisory, and professional employees to be exempt from overtime provisions; require the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards to set the salary requirement every three years to determine who is exempt from the overtime provisions; amend 337.020 to conform; amend 337.285 to conform to federal requirements and conform. To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HR 63: Urge Congress to reassess the federal definition of industrial hemp, allowing the product to contain up to one percent (1%) delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on a dry weight basis. Posted in committee Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 517: AN ACT relating to adoption. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to establish a putative father registry in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; prescribe the data the registry will contain and who may access the data; amend KRS 199.480 and 199.990 to conform; amend KRS 199.473 to create a unified application for permission to place or receive a child; amend KRS 199.500 to redefine the time at which a voluntary and informed consent to adoption becomes final and irrevocable; amend KRS 199.470 to remove waiting period to file a petition for adoption; amend KRS 406.081 to require courts to resolve cases against alleged fathers who do not comply with ordered genetic testing; amend KRS 406.091 to require the party requesting that the paternity action be filed to pay for genetic testing; amend KRS 199.490, 625.040, 625.042, 625.043, and 625.065 to conform. To Health and Family Services (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 466: AN ACT relating to educational programs. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to allow an accredited college or university to conduct alcoholic beverage sampling as a part of an educational program; define "educational program"; prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in connection with an educational program; require the college or university to include the educational program as part of an established curriculum emphasizing areas such as business and finance, hospitality, tourism and event management, or other aspects of alcoholic beverages; direct the curriculum to clearly state which classes include the sampling of alcoholic beverages; set handling, storage, and reporting requirements for alcoholic beverages; require STAR training for educational program instructors who serve or dispense alcoholic beverages for sampling; limit sampling to students or other persons who are 21 or older on the first day of a sampling class; set daily per-person sampling limits for distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages; require an educational program to purchase all of its alcoholic beverages from a quota retail package licensee; provide that an alcoholic beverage license shall not be required to conduct sampling through an educational program; amend KRS 244.050 to exempt educational programs from the restrictions on retail licensee sampling. To Education (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SB 105: AN ACT relating to midwifery and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to establish licensing for midwifery; establish terms and create definitions; establish the Kentucky Board of Midwifery, create membership, set terms, and grant authority and duties; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the scope of practice for a licensed midwife; require informed consent for practice and require disclosures; allow the board to reprimand, deny, limit, revoke, probate, or suspend licenses; establish in the State Treasury the Kentucky Board of Midwifery trust and agency fund; amend KRS 211.180 to remove midwifery from the purview of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 311.550 to amend the definition of medicine and osteopathy to remove a reference to the Cabinet's oversight of midwifery; declare that this Act is intended to be consistent with the United States Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association statement on licensure, July 2015; APPROPRIATION. Floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed Track