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in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 273: AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow individuals who become a member of the General Assembly on or after April 1, 2017, to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly; allow members of the General Assembly who began contributing to the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System on or after December 31, 2014, but prior to April 1, 2017, to make a one-time irrevocable election by December 31, 2017, to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of accumulated contributions; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System shall apply to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, and 61.525 to conform; EMERGENCY.

To State Government (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 263: AN ACT relating to taxation. Amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from changes to the federal estate tax since 2003; amend KRS 141.010 to provide for a reduction and phase-out of the pension exclusion, disallow the domestic production activities deduction, establish a cap for itemized deductions, and define "taxpayer"; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates; amend KRS 141.066 to provide for a refundable earned income credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize changes in income tax credits; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the exclusion threshold; amend KRS 141.120 to change apportionment methods to use a "throwback" rule and market-based sourcing for receipts; amend KRS 141.200 to require "combined" reporting for corporations; amend KRS 134.810, 136.310, 136.530, 141.040, 141.121, 141.206, and 141.420 to conform; amend KRS 141.205 to recognize "tax haven" foreign countries and tax all income apportioned or allocated to those countries; amend KRS 141.383, 148.544, and 148.546 to make the film industry tax credit nonrefundable and nontransferable; create a new section of KRS 6.905 to 6.935 to require review and sunset of all economic development tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow LRC employees to review selected tax documents; amend KRS 138.270 to reduce motor fuels dealer compensation to one percent; amend KRS 132.020 to make the real property tax rate 12.2 cents per $100, remove the rate adjustment provision, and remove the recall provisions; amend KRS 132.260 to clarify requirements for reporting of rental space for mobile or manufactured homes, private aircraft, and certain boats or vessels; amend KRS 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, and 132.815 to clarify property tax treatment of manufactured homes; amend KRS 140.300 to clarify the treatment of agricultural valuation on inherited property; amend KRS 279.200, 279.530, 279.220, and 139.530 to repeal rural electric and telephone co-op taxes; amend KRS 132.097 and 132.099 to amend the exemption for personal property shipped out of state; amend KRS 139.105, 139.200, 139.220, 139.270, 139.340 and 139.740 to impose sales tax on selected services; amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.990 to recognize changes in the distilled spirits case tax; amend KRS 138.130, 138.140, and 138.143 to change the tax on cigarette rolling papers, to raise the tobacco taxes, to impose a floor stock tax, and to tax e-cigarettes; amend KRS 65.125, 65.674, 67.862, 67.938, 67A.843, 68.245, 68.248, 82.095, 97.590, 132.0225, 132.023, 132.024, 132.027, 132.029, 157.440, 160.470, 160.473, 67C.147, 78.530, 342.340, and 134.810 to remove the provisions of HB 44 that allow for recall of certain tax rates and make conforming and technical changes; repeal KRS 132.017, 132.018, 132.025, 132.720, 143A.035, and 243.710, relating to recall petitions and to various tax rates; provide that estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2017, sales tax provisions are effective for periods beginning on or after October 1, 2017, motor fuels compensation provisions are effective August 1, 2017, and property tax provisions are for assessments on and after January 1, 2018.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 267: 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 Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms, and prevent Representatives from serving more than six consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service 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)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 13, 2017

SB 158: AN ACT relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses. Amend KRS 314.011 to remove limitations on the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses promulgated in administrative regulations; eliminate the Kentucky Board of Nursing's Controlled Substances Formulary Development Committee; amend 314.042 to require an advanced practice registered nurse to obtain registration through the United States Drug Enforcement Agency before prescribing Schedule II through V controlled substances; eliminate the Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances; eliminate requirements for those collaborative agreements and advanced practice registered nurses who hold them.

To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 275: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to require sex offender registrants to pay an annual $75 registration fee; allow the Department of Kentucky State Police to waive the fee if the registrant was found at the time of conviction to be indigent; provide that failure to pay the fee does not prevent the registrant from registering and updating their registry information; make any registrant whose fee was not waived and who knowingly fails to pay the fee guilty of a violation with a fine up to $250 for the first offense and a Class B misdemeanor for each subsequent offense; establish the sex offender registry fund; amend KRS 17.500 to revise the definition of "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor," "registrant information," and "residence"; amend KRS 17.510 to require registrants to provide palm prints; require persons convicted or required to register in other jurisdictions to register within three working days of relocation; require registrants to inform the appropriate local probation and parole office of travel outside the country; require registrants who move to a new county to register with the appropriate local probation and parole office within three working days; require any changes to a registrant's electronic mail address or any other Internet communication name identity to register the change or new identity within three working days; amend 17.520 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a sex offender registrant that is 18 years of age or older from having the same residence as a minor; provide an exception if the registrant is the spouse, parent, grandparent, stepparent, sibling, stepsibling, or guardian unless the registrant's parental rights have or are being terminated, the registrant was convicted of any sex crime or criminal offense against the victim who is a minor in which the child of the registrant was the victim, or the registrant has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor; make any registrant who violates the prohibition of living with a minor guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class D felony for the second and each subsequent offense; amend KRS 17.546 to revise the definition of "social networking Web site"; amend KRS 17.580 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to display a registrant's palm prints on their Web site; Sections 1 and 2 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018.

To Judiciary (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 279: AN ACT relating to constables and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 70 to provide incentive payments for constables and deputy constables who complete training; create a new section of KRS 15.310 to 15.510 to create a Constable Certification Program to be established, regulated, and provided by the Department of Criminal Justice Training; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A and amend KRS 23A.2065 and 24A.1765 to create the constable certification fund composed of a $5 increase in Circuit and District Court criminal case fees as well as any contributions, gifts, grants, donations, devises, or appropriations the fund may receive; amend KRS 15.310 to define "certified constable"; create a new section of KRS 15.310 to 15.510 to clarify that certified constables and deputy constables are not considered hazardous duty positions and not eligible for the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; amend KRS 189.910 to include vehicles used for emergency purposes by certified constables and deputy constables within the definition of "emergency vehicle"; amend KRS 64.190 to provide that constables may collect the same fees allowed sheriffs for similar services; amend KRS 454.140 to add constables to those officers to whom process may be directed.

To Local Government (H)
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