in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 15, 2017 SJR 92: Designate the Sergeant Walker "Hayes" Bentley Memorial Highway in Pike County. To Transportation (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017 HB 362: AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes. Amend KRS 139.570 to increase the maximum amount of compensation that a seller shall deduct from each sales and use return from $50 to $1,500 for timely remitting the sales and use tax to the Department of Revenue; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2017. To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017 HB 345: AN ACT relating to special powers of appointment. 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. To Judiciary (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017 HB 317: AN ACT relating to motor vehicle registration fees. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish an additional initial and renewal registration fee of $100 for plug-in electric vehicles; amend KRS 186.010 to define "plug-in electric vehicle"; EFFECTIVE 1/1/2018. To Transportation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 15, 2017 SB 56: AN ACT relating to the overtaking of bicycles on a roadway. Amend KRS 189.300 to provide that the operator of any vehicle moving upon a highway is to keep to the right unless signage or markings indicate otherwise; amend KRS 189.340 to require vehicles overtaking bicycles to pass at a distance of at least three feet; specify when a motor vehicle may pass a bicycle to the left of the center of a roadway. To Transportation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 15, 2017 SB 185: AN ACT relating to the administration of tax laws. Amend KRS 131.081 to require the Department of Revenue to inform taxpayers of any overpayments and to state that any department employee shall not willfully, recklessly, or intentionally disregard taxpayer rights; amend KRS 131.170 to relocate the IRS extension language from KRS 131.081, to require that taxpayers demonstrate reasonable cause for extension requests, and to allow the department to permit the filing of a return, report, or tax on any date, upon request; amend KRS 131.175 to give the commissioner of revenue authority to abate all or part of any interest to the extent that additional interest accrued because of error or delay by the department; amend KRS 131.370 to require a stay on the collection of tax by the filing of an appeal to any court and to remove the provisions requiring a supersedeas bond. To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017 HB 326: AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly. Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Representatives from serving more than eight consecutive terms in office, not including partial terms, and to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, including a partial term of three years or more, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service, if reelected, in the house from which they were term-limited after two years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017 HB 321: AN ACT relating to deferred deposit transactions. Amend KRS 286.9-991 to increase civil penalties under Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286. To Judiciary (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 14, 2017 SB 172: AN ACT relating to discrimination in the workplace based on pregnancy. Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of "reasonable accommodations," accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; define "related medical conditions;" amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful for employers to 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. To Judiciary (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 14, 2017 SB 169: AN ACT relating to penalties for deferred deposit transaction violations. Amend KRS 286.9-991 to increase civil penalties under Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286. To Banking & Insurance (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 14, 2017 HB 292: AN ACT relating to the distribution of fuel tax revenues. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177, regarding allocation of a portion of fuel tax revenue to the rural secondary and county road aid funds, to change the revenue-sharing formula on the portion of fuel tax revenue which exceeds $825 million in any year to divide 48.2% of motor fuel tax revenues in excess of $825 million between incorporated and unincorporated areas based on population and road mileage; clarify that the share of the two splits allocated to incorporated areas shall be used by cities and unincorporated urban places in accordance with Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Act; clarify that the share of the two splits allocated to unincorporated areas shall be used by counties, with 54.8% going to rural secondary roads and 45.2% used for county roads; amend KRS 177.365 to clarify that the allocation of fuel taxes to incorporated areas shall be used by cities for city streets; amend KRS 177.366 to eliminate the use of population as the sole factor in distributing municipal road aid funds and instead allocate 75% of the funds based on population, and 25% based on road mileage; amend KRS 177.010 to define the term "revenue-sharing road" amend KRS 177.320, 177.330, 177.360, 177.369, 179.410, 179.415, 138.220, and 177.020 to conform; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018. To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 14, 2017 SJR 85: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Keith Whitley on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 and erect the appropriate signage. To Transportation (S) Track