Kentucky Bills

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 253: AN ACT relating to child protective services. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect occurred when an investigation is required and ongoing unannounced visits until the welfare of a child has been safeguarded; permit a delay in an unannounced visit; provide that this Act may be cited as the Tucker Act.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 188)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 72: AN ACT relating to planning and zoning. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to set requirements for filing an appeal bond for appeals of Circuit Court decisions before the case is transferred to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 181)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 417: AN ACT relating to interference with an authorized individual's right to concealed carry. Amend KRS 237.137 to provide that it is a violation to prevent a person authorized to concealed carry from doing so on a permitted property; establish fines.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 182)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 309: AN ACT relating to tenancies in real property. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide that, after the effective date of this Act, residential tenants who hold a domestic violence order, a pretrial release no-contact order, or an interpersonal protective order may terminate a lease with at least 30 days' notice to landlords, while the lease continues for co-tenants; establish civil action for a landlord's economic losses due to termination against persons restrained by protective orders; for those tenants or applicants for tenancy who hold an emergency protective order, a domestic violence order, a pretrial release no-contact order, an interpersonal protective order, or a temporary interpersonal protective order, those orders cannot serve as a basis for denying a lease and new locks may be installed by the tenant; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide that, after the effective date of this Act, rental agreements shall not penalize tenants for requesting assistance from emergency services.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 191)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 128: AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible; require that the course provide to students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; permit students to use various translations of the Bible for the course; amend KRS 158.197 to permit a school council to offer an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 187)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 482: AN ACT relating to law enforcement training. Amend KRS 15.440 to allow the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, through the promulgation of administrative regulations, to approve basic training credit for the basic training for the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund stipend and Peace Officer Professional Standards basic training years for service credit served in another state or basic training completed in another state.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 176)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HCR 90: Urge Congress to designate the southern portion of the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway as Interstate 169.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 180)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 404: AN ACT relating to commercial parcel delivery. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow commercial delivery personnel to use golf carts, low-speed vehicles, and utility vehicles for delivery of express mail and packages in residential areas; define "commercial delivery personnel," "residential area," and "utility vehicle"; outline use provisions; outline vehicle requirements; allow vehicles operating under this section to pull a trailer; allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement these provisions.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 184)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 484: AN ACT relating to tourism. Amend KRS 11A.010 to eliminate the waiver of a registration fee for a presenter at a tourism-related conference from the definition of "gift", and clarify that "public servant" does not include the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet or its subdivisions; amend KRS 11A.045 to exclude activities involving sponsorships granted by the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet in promoting the Commonwealth, and individuals traveling on their own acting on behalf of the cabinet; amend KRS 11A.055 to exclude tourism promotion from the prohibitions on fund raising by state agencies, and exclude nonprofit organizations affiliated with the cabinet from the provisions of the chapter; amend KRS 45A.045 to allow sponsorships by the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet to be granted by noncompetitive negotiation and make technical corrections; amend KRS 45A.810 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 175)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 396: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky State Police and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to allow the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide state resources to the Kentucky State Police Foundation; amend KRS 16.040 to provide additional criteria for the appointment of police officers by administrative regulation; amend KRS 16.080 to allow the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations setting out an ethics code for officers of the department and individuals employed as a Trooper R Class or CVE R Class; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 186)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HB 469: AN ACT to revise and correct the Kentucky Revised Statutes. Statute Reviser's bill for the 2017 Regular Session; make legislative findings and declarations on the nature and reasons for the statutory changes being made; amend KRS 311.685 and 343.020 to correct inadvertent drafting errors in statutory text; amend KRS 134.452, 154.33-510, 243.200, and 402.100 to correct improper in-text statutory references; repeal KRS 158.650, 158.680, 158.685, and 158.710, whose provisions expired in 1996; amend KRS 156.160 and 160.107 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 177)

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 11, 2017

HCR 48: Urge the United States Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its proposed standard for NNN levels on ingredients and constituents in smokeless tobacco products.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 179)