Kentucky House Bill 147 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 9 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-04-15 - 3rd reading, passed 36-1 with Committee Substitute (1)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #4) [PDF]

Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year in the aggregate to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contributions not applicable to the cap on contributions to the state executive committee's political party building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000, to increase the aggregate contribution amounts from permanent committees, executive committees, and caucus campaign committees to $20,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to allow minors 16 years of age or older to be appointed as student election assistants; amend KRS 116.095 to require county clerks to redact a registered voter’s Social Security number from any voter registration record that is requested by a citizen; amend KRS 117.045 and 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committee of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 116.0452 to establish 4 p.m. local time as the deadline for voter registration applications to be deemed timely received by county clerk before voter registration books are closed; amend KRS 117.235 to allow the posting of political signs on private property that does not serve as a polling station, regardless of distance from the polling place; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to identify the process to be followed by a candidate to appear on an election ballot for school board member in a school district that extends across county lines; identify the process for totaling a candidate's votes and issuing a certificate of election; amend KRS 118.425 to conform; specify that certain contribution limits apply to elections after July 15, 2016.

AN ACT relating to elections.

Rep. Gregory Stumbo [D]	Rep. Linda Belcher [D]	Rep. Jeff Hoover [R]	Rep. Brian Linder [R]
Rep. Sal Santoro [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-15	Senate	3rd reading, passed 36-1 with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-04-15	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, April 15, 2016
2016-04-15	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-03-25	Senate	returned to State & Local Government (S)
2016-03-25	Senate	2nd reading
2016-03-25	Senate	taken from State & Local Government (S)
2016-03-24	Senate	returned to State & Local Government (S)
2016-03-24	Senate	1st reading
2016-03-24	Senate	taken from State & Local Government (S)
2016-02-11	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2016-02-09	Senate	received in Senate
2016-02-08	House	3rd reading, passed 71-22 with floor amendment (1)
2016-02-04	House	floor amendment (1) filed
2016-02-02	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 3
2016-02-02	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-02-01	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-01-07	House	posted in committee
2016-01-05	House	to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
2016-01-05	House	introduced in House
2015-12-11	House	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/bill.doc
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/SCS1.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/vote_history.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB147/SCS1LM.pdf