Kentucky Bills

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 139: AN ACT relating to livestock. Amend KRS 100.111, 132.010, 148.001, 150.010, 151.100, 154.1-010, 176.051, 186.010, 189.222, 211.015, 217.544, 217B.040, 224.71-100, 247.010, 249.350, 253.010, 253.070, 253.130, 253.990, 256.010, 256.030, 256.080, 256.090, 261.200, 262.910, 281.605, 433.255, and 446.010 to define the term "livestock"; amend KRS 186.675 and 224.71-110 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 129)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 234: AN ACT relating to coal mining. Amend KRS 350.055 to change the reference in the public notice of intention to mine coal from "mining site" to "permitted area"; amend KRS 350.060 to remove the requirement that all areas overlying underground workings of coal mines be permitted.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 142)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 19: AN ACT relating to credit freezes for protected consumers. Create a new section of KRS 367.363 to 367.365 to define "protected person," "representative," and "sufficient proof of authority"; require a consumer reporting agency to place a security freeze on a protected person's record or report upon proper request by a representative; require the freeze to be placed within 30 days of receiving the request; set forth when the credit reporting agency is required to remove the freeze; allow the credit reporting agency to charge a fee under certain circumstances; establish penalties for violations.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 119)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 294: AN ACT relating to the disclosure of damages by motor vehicle dealers. Amend KRS 186A.540 to clarify that sellers and dealers must disclose accident damage to a motor vehicle, raise the damage threshold for reporting from $1,000 to $2,000; exempt wheels, tires, and glass from the calculation of the damage reporting threshold; amend KRS 190.0491 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 139)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 173: AN ACT relating to Department of Juvenile Justice facilities and making an appropriation therefor. Provide authorization for the proceeds of the sale of state-owned real property and improvements in Owensboro, Kentucky operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice to be used to service debt relating to the Department of Juvenile Justice's Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract loans.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 130)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 350: AN ACT relating to the veteran designation on license plates. Amend KRS 186.041 to add members of the National Guard or a Reserve component, who have retired or completed a minimum of 20 years of service, to those eligible for the veteran license plates and reflect the change in the federal active-duty service requirement from 24 months to 180 days.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 137)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 395: AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the Division of Special Investigations within the Office of Inspector General; establish the duties of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs; amend KRS 12.020 and 42.0145 to establish the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; delete references to the Office of Public Information; amend KRS 131.020 to create within the Department of Revenue, the Office of Tax Policy and Regulation and the Division of Protest Resolution, the heads of which shall report directly to the commissioner; abolish the Division of Protest Resolution within the Office of Processing and Enforcement; confirm Executive Order 2016-602.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 131)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 135: AN ACT relating to nonprofit health service corporations. Amend KRS 304.32-130 to remove the requirement that dues may not result in excess reserves; and to establish alternative criteria for the determination of member or subscriber dues for nonprofit hospital, medical-surgical, dental, or other health service plan.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 127)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 170: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Amend KRS 12.020 to create, within the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Office of Film and Tourism Development; abolish the Office of Sports Authority and the Office of Research and Administration; abolish the Commission on Small Business Advocacy within the cabinet; confirm Executive Order 2016-856.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 110)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 83: AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife. Amend KRS 150.390 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to undertake measures if deer and elk pose a significant risk to human safety from automobile accidents; identify permissive measures for the department to implement including special hunts and issuance of more tags.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 124)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 11: AN ACT relating to nuclear power. Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate the requirement that the facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate the requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate the requirement that the facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire a consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 200: AN ACT relating to orders of restitution and forfeiture following a criminal conviction of cruelty to animals in the second degree. Amend KRS 525.130, relating to cruelty to animals in the second degree, to allow a court to order an offender to pay restitution for the upkeep of a horse involved in the offense and terminate the offender's interest in the horse involved in the offense.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 145)