Rep. Felicia Rabourn

Create new sections of KRS 99.700 to 99.730 to allow a commission or alternative government entity to obtain an administrative warrant to inspect blighted or abandoned properties; require commissions and alternative government entities to exercise the power of eminent domain in accordance with KRS 99.700 to 99.730; amend KRS 99.705 to define "abandoned property"; redefine "blighted property"; amend KRS 99.720 to require two notices of local code violations prior to certification of a property as blighted or abandoned; amend KRS 99.725 to require local governments to hold public hearings regarding proposed takings of blighted or abandoned property prior to initiating eminent domain proceedings; require proceedings of the public hearings to be recorded and available to the public for review and comment; amend KRS 416.610 to require the petitioner in an eminent domain proceeding to prove necessity of the taking; amend KRS 416.675 to redefine "public use"; remove allowance of sale or lease of property to private entities occupying an incidental area within a public project or building; remove exemption for property financed by state road funds or federal highway funds from the requirements of KRS 416.675; amend KRS 65.355, 91.285, 92.305, 99.700, 99.710, 99.715, 99.727, 99.730, and 416.580 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13B to reinstate a person's credential or benefit if it was lost or denied due to noncompliance with an executive order or administrative regulation relating to pandemic restrictions; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.310, 13A.315, 13A.330, 13A.335, and 13A.336 to grant the Attorney General authority over some aspects of the administrative regulation process; amend KRS 13B.120 to enable the Attorney General to accept, reject, or modify an agency head's changes that create a more adverse final order; amend KRS 13B.150 to direct a Circuit Court reviewing a final order to determine if the agency committed misconduct by violating appropriation restrictions placed upon the agency by the General Assembly; remove a noncompliant agency head or administrative official from office for willfully violating an appropriation restriction; prohibit a removed official from holding office for 10 years after the finding; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.

Suspend 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 111, House Bill 11 of the 2024 Regular Session, unless and until the Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al., No. 23-1038, overruling the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.

Amend KRS 438.305 to remove various definitions; amend KRS 241.060, 438.310, and 438.313 to conform; repeal KRS 438.306, 438.307, 438.308, 438.309, 438.312, 438.316, and 438.331, relating to vapor products.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to define "Fiscal note"; require fiscal notes to be filed with the clerk in the chamber of the General Assembly for each bill or resolution that is filed; establish requirements related to fiscal notes for the director of the Legislative Research Commission; require fiscal notes to contain specific information; amend KRS 6.950, 6.955, 6.960, 6.965, and 6.970 to rename fiscal note to local government mandate statement; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.230, 13A.250, and 13A.280 to rename fiscal note to fiscal note on state and local government.

Amend KRS 217C.040 to allow the sale of unpasteurized milk to a consumer; amend KRS 217C.010 and 217C.020 to conform; repeal KRS 217C.090, relating to the sale of unpasteurized goat milk.

Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions from state sales and use taxes.

Maddy summaryHB 179 amends Kentucky's tax code to exempt bullion (like gold and silver coins/bars) and physical currency from sales and use taxes starting August 1, 2024. This directly affects businesses selling bullion or currency (such as coin dealers or banks) and their customers purchasing these items. The bill adds these items to the existing list of tax-exempt goods under KRS 139.480, meaning buyers will no longer pay state sales tax on these transactions. The change applies only to tangible bullion and physical money, not to other financial instruments.

Amend KRS 141.010 to define "tips" and "overtime compensation"; amend KRS 141.019 to allow an exclusion from gross income for tax purposes for tips and overtime compensation; amend KRS 141.335 to include tips and overtime compensation amounts on employee withholding statement; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusions.