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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

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 266: AN ACT relating to commercial driver's licenses. Amend KRS 281A.010 to define "human trafficking"; amend KRS 281A.120 to require a person applying for a commercial driver's license to complete training related to identifying and reporting human trafficking; amend 281A.130 to conform; amend KRS 281A.170 to require commercial driver's licenses to be issued with a wallet card that outlines the signs of human trafficking and how to report it, and includes the National Human Trafficking Hotline number; amend KRS 281A.320 and 281.755 to conform.

To Transportation (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 287: AN ACT relating to eliminating retirement benefits for state officers and their political appointments taking office on or after December 1, 2019. Amend KRS 61.525 to provide that, effective December 1, 2019, certain elective and appointed officers as exempted from the classified service under KRS 18A.115 shall not participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) during his or her term of office; amend KRS 61.510 to change the definition of "employee" to exclude elective or appointed officers otherwise ineligible to participate KERS; make technical and conforming amendments to KRS 61.520 and 61.525.

To State Government (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 259: AN ACT relating to planning and zoning. Amend KRS 100.111 to declare the production of Kentucky Proud hand-crafted functional or decorative products on agricultural lands of 5 or more acres as agricultural uses.

To Agriculture (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HCR 50: Urge Congress to pass the bipartisan Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act to accelerate disbursement of $1 billion in available funding in the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to revitalize coal communities hardest hit by the downturn of the coal industry.

To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 13, 2017

HB 286: AN ACT relating to eliminating retirement benefits for legislators taking office on or after January 1, 2018. Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective January 1, 2018; amend KRS 61.525 to prohibit future members of the General Assembly from participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System unless they participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the Legislators' Retirement Plan as members of the General Assembly prior to January 1, 2018; amend KRS 61.510, 61.520, and 61.525 to make technical and conforming amendments.

To State Government (H)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 10, 2017

SB 149: AN ACT establishing the Government Nonprofit Contracting Advisory Commission. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to establish the Government Nonprofit Contracting Advisory Commission; attach to the Commission on Small Business Advocacy for administrative purposes; designate as members the secretaries of the cabinets for Finance and Administration, Health and Family Services, Transportation, and Education and Workforce Development, the executive director of the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, and eight members nominated by the Kentucky Nonprofit Network and appointed by the Governor; specify that members shall serve without compensation; establish the duties of the commission to include but not be limited to reviewing and offering reports on administrative regulations, the effect of federal and state laws on nonprofit agencies, and best practices adopted by other states relating to contracting with nonprofit agencies; require an annual report.

To State & Local Government (S)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 10, 2017

HR 11: Urge the Kentucky Department for Local Government, the Kentucky County/Judge Executive Association; the Kentucky Association of Counties, and the Kentucky League of Cities to conduct annual dedicated training on the benefits and best practices of interlocal agreements.

3rd reading, adopted 93-0

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 248: AN ACT relating to the physician preceptor tax incentive program. 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 · Senate Feb 9, 2017

SB 137: AN ACT relating to absentee ballots for voters. Amend KRS 117.075 and 117.085 to allow qualified voters of advanced age or with a disability or illness the means to vote by using a mail-in absentee ballot or by in-person absentee voting; make technical corrections.

To State & Local Government (S)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 243: AN ACT relating to trespass. Amend KRS 511.070 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property; require any owner or lessee who marks his or her real property in such a manner to also provide clear written notice forbidding entry; provide that the written notice requirement will cease to be operative within one year of the effective date of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resorces inform the public of these provisions.

To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 212: AN ACT relating to charity auctions. Amend KRS 139.496 to exempt from sales and use tax the gross receipts derived from a charitable auction held on or after July 1, 2017, but before July 1, 2021, by a nonprofit civic, governmental, or other nonprofit organization.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 220: AN ACT relating to laws passed by the General Assembly. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to provide that the General Assembly shall not exempt itself or any state agency from general laws applicable to the general public or businesses.

To State Government (H)