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in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 19, 2018

HB 50: AN ACT relating to occupational licensing regulations. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 12 to define terms; set forth requirements for all occupational licensing regulations established by an agency on or after November 15, 2018; require each agency to conduct a comprehensive review of all occupational licensing regulations under its jurisdiction every five years and to prepare and submit a report of its review to the Legislative Research Commission; establish a process to petition an agency to repeal or modify an occupational licensing regulation; allow a petitioner to appeal an agency's actions or inaction to Circuit Court.

Posted in committee
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 196: AN ACT relating to economic development. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to require retail electric suppliers to use increasing amounts of renewable energy; require retail electric suppliers to take energy-efficiency measures and implement energy-efficiency programs that increase energy savings over a period of time; provide for alternative compliance plans for public utilities that fail to meet renewable energy or efficiency requirements; define renewable energy; specify reporting requirements to the Public Service Commission regarding progress in diversifying energy sources and energy savings; require the Public Service Commission to develop tariff guidelines for purchase of renewable power.

To Natural Resources & Energy (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 199: AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 195: AN ACT relating to civil rights. Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.

To Judiciary (H)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 18, 2018

SB 83: AN ACT relating to investigations of financial mismanagement. Amend KRS 45.131 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission to investigate any alleged mismanagment of any of the affairs of the state by any current or former officer, employee, or governing body responsible for carrying out any state function or the management of state funds; amend KRS 45.142 to add KRS Chapter 45A, the Model Procurement Code, to those chapters for which the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission, on behalf of their respective departments, shall have certain investigative powers to enforce.

To State & Local Government (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 17, 2018

HB 186: AN ACT relating to taxing districts. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define “entity” and “governing body”; provide that members of certain governing bodies shall be subject to election at the regular election; establish procedures for jurisdictions to certify the number of delegates for each board and for dispute resolution; set forth the criteria for nominating petitions for candidates; establish a default four-year term unless otherwise provided in statute; provide that the Governor shall appoint a member if no candidate is nominated for or elected to an open seat on a governing body; set forth the process whereby a member may be removed for cause; provide that vacancies shall be filled in accordance with Section 152 of the Constitution of Kentucky; amend KRS 61.170 to provide that members of governing bodies, like other county officers, may be indicted for malfeasance or neglect and, if convicted, the office is vacated; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, relating to the governing bodies of taxing districts, to conform; amend KRS 118.305 and 118.315 to include petitions of nomination and election of candidates on the regular election ballot; provide that appointments made prior to January 1, 2020, shall expire on or before December 31, 2020; allow trustees of volunteer fire districts and departments under KRS Chapter 75, who are normally subject to election in June 2020 to have their terms of office of office extended to December 31, 2020; provide that elections shall be held every two or four years beginning in November 2020; allow previously appointed members to seek election to a seat on the governing body; state that candidates elected in November 2020 shall assume office on January 1 of the following year; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020.

To Local Government (H)
D.J. Johnson (R)
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