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

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 17, 2023

SB 46: AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Office of State Veterinarian.

Amend KRS 246.030 to change the Office of State Veterinarian's Division of Animal Health to the Division of Regulatory Field Services, change the Division of Producer Services to the Division of Animal Health Programs, and establish the Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response; amend KRS 257.330, 257.350, 257.370, 257.380, 257.390, 257.400, 257.410, 257.420, 257.440, 257.450, 257.470, and 321.200 to conform.

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 17, 2023

SB 144: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky battlefield preservation fund.

Amend KRS 171.394 to require that matching nonstate funds from nonprofit organizations be dollar for dollar for Civil War sites and one dollar to each three dollars for Revolutionary War sites in order to receive funds from the Kentucky battlefield preservation fund; require approval of the state historic preservation officer for grants exceeding 50% of the appraised value of the land or permanent protective interests.

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2023

HB 217: AN ACT relating to titling of motor vehicles.

Amend KRS 186A.005, 186A.017, 186A.120, 186A.125, and 186A.165, as effective January 1, 2024, to include the application for salvage titles under the electronic title application and registration system; amend KRS 186A.520 to conform; amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 19, to set a January 1, 2025, effective date for Sections 6 to 11 of that Act, regarding the centralized lien reporting system, and retain the January 1, 2024, effective date for all other codified sections of that Act; Section 6 of this bill effective January 1, 2024.

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2023

HB 150: AN ACT relating to motor vehicle dealers.

Amend KRS 190.010 to amend the definition of "franchise" to include any agreements related to or dependent on an original franchise agreement addendum to the franchise agreement; amend KRS 190.042 to permit a new motor vehicle dealer to propose a successor agreement; amend KRS 190.045 to increase the time allowed for a dealer to respond to notice of cancellation from 15 days to 30 days; amend KRS 190.046 to limit audit and document retention requirements on recall work, and allow a manufacturer to audit a motor dealer if the manufacturer reasonably suspects fraud; amend KRS 190.070 to prohibit manufacturers and other licensees from requiring remodeling of a dealership within 10 years of a previously required improvement, using motor vehicles in transit in any sales formula to the detriment of the dealer, offering the sale of new motor vehicles outside a franchised dealer, or failing to assign reservations and purchase requests received by a manufacturer to a dealer.

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2023

HJR 39: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing executive branch agencies to undertake efforts to address the benefits cliff in Kentucky.

Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study all public assistance program flexibilities permitted under federal law which may afford the Commonwealth the opportunity to address the benefits cliff; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study the cost of maintaining certain changes made to the Child Care Assistance Program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool; and require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and implement a federal Earned Income Tax Credit outreach and education program; require these agencies to submit reports to the Interim Joint Committees on Health, Welfare, and Family Services and Appropriations and Revenue by November 1, 2023.

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2023

HB 594: AN ACT relating to the regulation of game machines.

Amend KRS 528.010 to define "coin-operated amusement machine," "skill," "skill-based contests," and "skill game"; amend the definitions of "advancing gambling activity," "gambling," "gambling device," and "something of value"; amend KRS 528.100 to authorize the Attorney General, the Commonwealthâs attorney for any locality, or the county attorney for any locality to establish a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000 for each device for any person who conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns a gambling device in violation of KRS Chapter 528; authorize the Attorney General, the Commonwealthâs attorney for any locality, or the county attorney for any locality to cause an action in equity to be brought in the name of the Commonwealth, to enjoin the operation of a gambling device in violation of KRS Chapter 528, and request an attachment against all devices and any moneys within those devices; EMERGENCY.

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 16, 2023

HB 392: AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.

Amend KRS 186.014 to eliminate references to circuit clerk issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards; allow county clerks to maintain branch offices to process motor vehicle titling and registration transactions; amend KRS 186.531, 186.510, and 27A.052 to eliminate references to circuit clerk issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards; repeal KRS 189.490, regarding duties of the circuit clerk in regards to the issuance of operator's licenses.

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 16, 2023

SB 72: AN ACT relating to motor vehicle titles.

Amend KRS 186A.170, regarding the Department of Vehicle Regulation's processing of titles, to restrict the department's ability to make exemptions from the speed title process for rebuilt and salvage vehicles.

signed · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2023

HB 1: AN ACT relating to income taxation.

Amend KRS 141.020 to reduce the individual income tax to 4.5% for taxable years beginning January 1, 2023, and to 4% for taxable years beginning January 1, 2024.

signed · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2023

HB 2: AN ACT relating to the Bowling Green Veterans Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Provide General Fund moneys in the amount of $16,630,000 in fiscal year 2022-2023 from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account to the Department of Veterans' Affairs for construction of the Bowling Green Veterans Center; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

signed · Kentucky · Senate Jan 6, 2023

SB 10: AN ACT relating to registration of professional employer organizations and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 336.236 to change the registration period for existing professional employer organizations as of July 14, 2022, to register with the Department of Workers' Claims by July 15, 2024; amend KRS 336.248 to require professional employer organizations to report and pay all unemployment insurance fund contributions using the state employer identification number and contribution rate of the client between the effective date of the Act and December 31, 2024; provide that after January 1, 2025, the professional employer organization shall report and pay all unemployment insurance fund contributions using the state employer identification number and contribution rate of the professional employer organization; amend KRS 336.250 to prohibit professional employer organizations from operating in Kentucky after July 15, 2024, without registering with the Department of Workers' Claims; provide that provisions in KRS 336.230 to 336.250 not amended in this Act are not changed; prohibit the Education and Labor Cabinet from requiring or enforcing certain reporting or payment for the period between July 14, 2022, and when this Act takes effect; EMERGENCY.

signed · Kentucky · House Aug 26, 2022

HB 1: AN ACT relating to disaster relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to establish the East Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (EKSAFE) fund; amend KRS 39A.305 to provide that moneys in the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (WKSAFE) fund shall carry forward until June 30, 2026; provide that financial assistance to cities, counties, and school districts for realized revenue losses shall be limited to 100% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2022-2023, 66% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2023-2024, and 33% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2024-2025; provide that moneys reimbursed to the Commonwealth after June 30, 2026, shall be deposited into the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; allow the waiver of up to 15 student attendance days for days missed by school districts through January 20, 2023, that are located in the Presidential Declaration of a Major Disaster and impacted by the July 2022 storms and flooding in the eastern Kentucky region; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.