in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 25, 2018 SJR 124: Designate Mershon's Bridge and the John E. Woodruff Memorial Highway in Trigg County. To Transportation (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 24, 2018 HCR 100: A Concurrent Resolution of the House urging the U.S. government and Army Corp of Engineers to maintain the summer pool water level in Kentucky Lake from Memorial to Labor Day. To Natural Resources & Energy (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 24, 2018 HB 222: AN ACT relating to liability for damage to property adjacent to Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission-managed lands. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define "adjacent landowner" and "commission-managed lands"; waive the sovereign immunity of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and establish the department's liability when the operations of commission-managed lands results in damages to property of an adjacent landowner; provide that a claim for damages shall be brought in the county in which the adjacent landowner's property is located, and the action shall not be removed to Franklin Circuit or District Court; provide that the Kentucky Claims Commission does not have jurisdiction over an adjacent landowner's claim for damages. Reassigned to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2018 SB 105: AN ACT relating to student loans. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to forbid a licensing agency from considering the nonpayment of student loans when issuing, renewing, revoking, or suspending any license; amend KRS 164.769 and 164A.240 to conform; repeal KRS 164.772. To Education (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2018 SB 103: AN ACT relating to school safety. Amend KRS 520.070 to include school marshals as persons exempt from the prohibition against possession of a firearm on school property if authorized by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to allow for the appointment of a school marshal by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; specify that a person authorized and appointed under this section is designated as a school marshal and enumerate restrictions on school marshal's powers; provide that persons certified to act as peace officers under KRS 15.380 are exempt from restrictions; establish requirements of eligibility for a school marshal's appointment; enumerate board's or governing bodies' responsibilities; require that schools designated as school marshal sites collaborate with the Kentucky State Police and local law enforcement on safety procedures prior to appointment of a school marshal; provide limits on liability for school boards or governing bodies that appoint school marshals; establish limits on the possession, transport, deposit, or carrying of firearms by a school marshal while on school property; limit liability for school marshals for acts or omissions undertaken pursuant to this section; provide that the school marshal is responsible for expenditures related to the purchase of a firearm, ammunition, or any other associated costs; allow that a local school board or governing body may pay compensation for expenses incurred undertaking school marshal's duties or appointment requirements; specify that otherwise lawful possession of a firearm as provided under KRS 527.070 or any other state or federal law is not restricted; exclude postsecondary or higher education institutions from coverage; require that any board of a local public school district or governing body of a private or parochial school that appoints a school marshal adopt guidelines to carry out school marshal's requirements. To Education (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 23, 2018 HB 72: AN ACT relating to legislative procedures for state fiscal measures. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require roll call votes on any state fiscal measure, including an appropriation or revenue-raising measure, voted upon in the Senate or House of Representatives or a committee thereof; require identification of any state fiscal measure by the director of the Legislative Research Commission, or upon a determination by the Senate or House of Representatives or a committee of either; require separate votes for any state fiscal measure. Posted in committee Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 23, 2018 HR 94: Urge Congress to amend 18 U.S.C. sec. 1591 relating to the crime of child sex trafficking to permit the prosecution of interactive computer services which advertise sex trafficking, and to amend 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that the provided civil immunity does not include criminal or civil liability for interactive computer services which carry ads offering sex with trafficking victims. To Small Business & Information Technology (H) Track
passed · Kentucky · Senate Jan 23, 2018 SB 8: AN ACT relating to the safety of canines and felines. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed. Reassigned to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 23, 2018 HB 224: AN ACT relating to unclaimed life insurance policies. Amend KRS 304.15-420 to make Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act retroactive; require the Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to specify what constitutes a good-faith effort to confirm the death of an insured. To Banking & Insurance (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 23, 2018 HB 221: AN ACT relating to the transportation of metal commodities. Amend KRS 189.2713 to expand the definition of "metal commodities" to include recyclable material used in the production of output products by metal processors. To Transportation (H) Sponsor D.J. Johnson (R) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 23, 2018 HB 151: AN ACT relating to the naming of public buildings, properties, highways, bridges, and programs. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 56 to prohibit the naming of any state building or property in honor of a living statewide constitutional officer, member of the General Assembly, justice or judge of the Court of Justice, or state employee during his or her term of office or employment or for a period of five years thereafter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to place the same restrictions on the naming of state programs or initiatives; create new sections of KRS Chapter 65, 65A, 160, and 164 to place similar restrictions on all forms of local government, special purpose governmental entities, school districts, and postsecondary education institutions for buildings, facilities, and programs that receive any state funding; amend KRS 177.074 to place the same restrictions upon the naming of state highways and bridges. Posted in committee Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 22, 2018 HJR 86: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Elaine "Bae Bae" Avanell Smith by placing signs declaring Lincoln County as "Home of Elaine 'Bae Bae' Avanell Smith, 2017 Young Miss Kentucky, MKTA." To Transportation (H) Track