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State Legislature US Congress

All 14,689 Active 326 In committee 5,859 Passed 4,038 Signed 1,952 Failed 158

signed · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017

HB 174: AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles. Amend KRS 189.222 to extend a 10 percent weight tolerance for vehicles engaged exclusively in the transportation of feed for livestock or poultry; permit a vehicle registered under KRS 186.050(3) transporting certain meats, agricultural crop products, or livestock to exceed the gross weight provisions by a weight tolerance of 10 percent.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 8)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017

HB 181: AN ACT relating to municipal electric authorities. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 to permit municipal utilities to join together to buy and sell electricity and natural gas; specify elements of an agreement to create a municipal electric authority; determine what powers an authority will have, including the power to undertake projects, bonding, and other borrowing power; specify limits to financial transactions; amend KRS 45A.365 and 424.260 to conform; cite as Municipal Electric Authority Act.

Posted in committee

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 22, 2017

SR 122: Urge Congress to pass the Miners Protection Act.

To Natural Resources & Energy (S)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017

HR 9: Urge the United States Environmental Protection Agency to prioritize compliance assistance over current enforcement practices.

3rd reading, passed 80-15

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 22, 2017

HB 260: AN ACT relating to civil rights. Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of reasonable accommodations, accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; amend KRS 344.040 to make an unlawful practice for employers who fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.

Posted in committee

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017

SJR 103: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to change the signs designating the Clarence Edward Tackett and Billy Wayne Bridgeman bridges in Virgie, Kentucky, to indicate that these men were casualties of the Vietnam War.

To Transportation (S)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HB 505: AN ACT relating to electric service. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define "single-family farm" and direct retail electric suppliers to charge no more than residential rates for service provided to single-family farms.

To Natural Resources & Energy (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HB 438: AN ACT relating to electric generating units. Create a new section of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224 to allocate ten percent of carbon dioxide emissions allocated to the Commonwealth of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. sec. 7411 (the Clean Air Act) to certain counties; establish the criteria by which counties with a coal-fired electric generating unit that retires after 2010 and before 2026 shall receive a percentage of the emission allowances; require that 50 percent of the emission allowances allocated to the utilities in the Commonwealth be returned to their ratepayers if their allowances equal their emissions; require that if the utilities sell the allowances that all proceeds of the sale be returned to the ratepayers.

To Natural Resources & Energy (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HB 507: AN ACT relating to small business. Amend 224.20-510 to clarify that the chair and vice chair shall be selected by the Small Business Stationary Source Compliance Advisory Panel from its members.

To Small Business & Information Technology (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HB 538: AN ACT relating to liens on real property. Amend KRS 382.365 to provide specific requirements and the format of an affidavit filed by an attorney to provide evidence of a release of a lien encumbering real property with the county clerk's office.

To Local Government (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HJR 117: Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate portions of McCreary County and Whitley County roadways as the "Copperhead Trail" and erect the appropriate signage.

To Transportation (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017

HB 177: AN ACT relating to idling motor vehicles. Amend KRS 189.430 to allow motor vehicle engine idling for no longer than 15 minutes; require that the vehicle doors be locked while it is idling.

To Transportation (S)