Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
Sponsored bills
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to allow members and members-elect of the General Assembly to prefile bills and resolutions for introduction at the next succeeding regular legislative session; require the prefiled bills and resolutions to be published on the Legislative Research Commission's website.
Amend KRS 317A.120 to require examinations for licensure to be offered in English, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Amend KRS 83A.130, 83A.140, and 83A.150 to require a city's legislative body to create an agenda that is distributed to members of the body at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and made available to the public at the time of the meeting.
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
Amend KRS 118.125 to require the Secretary of State or county clerk to verify a candidate's address and precinct number prior to the candidate filing deadline; require the Secretary of State or county clerk to verify that the voters signing the candidate's petition for office reside in the same district or jurisdiction as the candidate.
Amend KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician and one additional citizen at large member to the board; direct board to collect and retain statistical data on its applicants and licensees; amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board give written tests in an applicant's first or second fluent language and provide a certified interpreter for oral exams; allow applicant to retake any failed portion of the exam one month from applicant's receipt of any failure notice and to retake any failed exam portion an unlimited number of times; cap the retesting fee at $35 per exam per applicant; amend KRS 317A.130 to require a warning notice be given for violation, except for a violation that presents immediate and present danger; direct notice to include description of violation and remediation required.
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "permanently inoperable"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of unregistered large capacity ammunition feeding devices; establish a large capacity ammunition feeding device registration program under the Department of Kentucky State Police; authorize a trust and agency account; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Create new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require all postsecondary institutions to contract with an auditor and conduct an annual audit; set deadlines for finalization of the audit and submission of audit report and requirements if deadlines are not met; set rules for the Auditor of Public Accounts and Council on Postsecondary Education to place institution under a fiscal watch; require a fiscal recovery plan for institutions on fiscal watch; sets financial terms for contracts with auditors and reduction in fees for auditor's unreasonable delay; require reference to these requirements in audit contracts between postsecondary institutions and auditors.