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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 9, 2017

SB 141: 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 KRS 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.190 to require a commercial driver's license holder to be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for one year if convicted of failing to report suspected human trafficking; provide that a commercial driver's license holder who uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of any crime involving human trafficking shall be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for life; amend KRS 281A.320 and 281.755 to conform.

To Transportation (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 187: AN ACT relating to elk hunting. Amend KRS 150.390 to establish a preference point system for the elk quota hunt; provide that applicants accrue one preference point for each year that an applicant is not drawn for a permit category; allow preference points to accrue without limitation; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to count each preference point as an additional free application for the applicant the next time he or she applies to that permit category; provide that an applicant's preference points shall be reset to zero for a permit category for which he or she is drawn; prohibit the transfer of preference points between applicants or categories; require an applicant's preference points to be reset to zero for each permit category to which the applicant has not applied for five consecutive years.

To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 9, 2017

SB 143: AN ACT relating to candidates for statewide office. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to require candidates for statewide office to file three years of income tax returns with the Registry of Election Finance; require the registry to promulgate administrative regulations to provide a release form; require the registry to place the income tax returns on its Web site; prohibit any candidate from appearing on a ballot if a candidate fails to file his or her income tax returns with the board; amend KRS 118.125 to require that the statewide candidate's federal income tax be filed with the Registry of Election Finance before the Secretary of State or county clerk may place the candidate's name on the ballot.

To State & Local Government (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 201: AN ACT relating to local governments. Amend Section 13 of 2017 RS HB 3/GA to set forth that a city, county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, charter county, or unified local government has the authority to adopt and enforce an ordinance which sets forth a minimum wage in excess of the state minimum wage; amend KRS 337.275 to require employers to pay the minimum wage set by the state or, if the local government in which the employer is located raises the minimum wage, then pay that minimum wage to her or her employees.

To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 190: AN ACT relating to special license plates and making an appropriation therefor. Amend KRS 186.172 to have the Transportation Cabinet design an alternative special firefighter plate highlighting the Kentucky Fallen Firefighter Memorial; provide that the plate is available to any vehicle owner; amend KRS 186.162 to set forth fees; provide that EF portion of fees from this plate design are to be used by the Firefighter Memorial Foundation, Inc.; APPROPRIATION.

To Transportation (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 9, 2017

HB 182: AN ACT relating to the establishment of a tax credit to promote investments in rural Kentucky businesses and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish a new tax credit against the taxes imposed on insurance companies and financial institutions, for contributions made by them into rural growth funds which make investments in certain businesses principally operating in certain areas of the state; declare findings and the purpose of the credit; define terms; require an entity to follow a process to apply for certification as a rural growth fund, and for investors in that entity to receive tax credits awarded by the Department of Revenue; allow the department to issue $60,000,000 in tax credits; provide credit sunset terms and other conditions for participating in the program and for claiming the credit; provide for revocation of tax credits; allow the department to audit rural growth funds; limit any liability of the Commonwealth in regard to rural growth funds or investments made by them; require various reports to be filed with the department and the Legislative Research Commission to enable evaluations of the credit program; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Kentucky Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2017; APPROPRIATION.

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