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R Kentucky Senate · District 27

Sen. Steve West

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Total votes
2,298
all sessions
Attendance
0%
632 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
97%
of cast votes
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Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
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Sponsored
139
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
5
assignments
139 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
139
Primary
139
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Primary SB 76
In committee · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to local governments.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance relating to landlord or tenant laws that is in conflict with the laws of this Commonwealth.

In committee Jan 8, 2024 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 216
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 15.243 to expand the Attorney General's independent inquiry of potential election irregularities from not fewer than 5% of Kentucky counties to not fewer than 12 counties; amend KRS 117.228 to remove credit or debit card as a voter's secondary form of proof of identification; amend KRS 117.125 to require all voting systems to be approved in accordance with prescribed requirements by January 1, 2024, and prohibit a voting systems' capability of connecting to any network, including the Internet, or with any device external to the voting system; amend KRS 117.135 to prescribe requirements relating to the county clerk's duties of securing and protecting voting equipment; and amend KRS 117.295 to expand the time in which voting equipment is to remain locked against voting after the election and require the voting equipment and ballot boxes to be under video surveillance.

Signed into law Apr 14, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 4
Passed · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require executive orders to be identified by year and subject areas and to be filed with the Secretary of State; require the Secretary of State to forward executive orders to the director of the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) on the date filed; create a process for legislative committees to review and object to executive orders; require the LRC to draft a bill each regular session to declare executive orders which have been objected to void; require the Governor to annually compile a list of all effective executive orders and deliver that list to the LRC; require executive orders to expire 90 days after the expiration of a Governor's final term of office; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require administrative bodies to expire 90 days after the end of the final term of the official who created them; amend KRS 11.160 to reduce the time the Governor or other appointing authority has to deliver letters of appointment to the LRC from seven calendar days to two working days; EMERGENCY.

Passed Apr 14, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 1
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 160.345 to require that the superintendent instead of the council determines curriculum after consulting with the principal and school council and after a stakeholder response period; require allocations to schools by local boards be determined by the principal after consultation with the council instead of being determined by the council; alter principal hiring process requiring principal to be selected by the superintendent after consultation with school council; require council members to sign a nondisclosure agreement prior to consultation; allow for a complaint process and removal of a council member for violation of the nondisclosure agreement; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to provide guidelines for effective writing programs to all districts instead of all schools; remove the requirement for schools to submit policies determining the writing program to KDE.

Signed into law Apr 13, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 124
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to transportation and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 281A.160 and 186.635 to allow a person whose valid Kentucky commercial driver's license or operator's license has been expired for less than five years to renew the license without having to take knowledge and skills tests; set requirements for application for renewal; EMERGENCY.

Signed into law Apr 8, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 152
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to solid waste management.

Amend KRS 109.0417 to exempt a local government that initially issues a solid waste management franchise in an area that the local government had exclusively provided services to from the requirements of the section.

Signed into law Apr 1, 2022 0 co-sponsors
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