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HB20PassAmend KRS 132.485 to clarify the standards for appraising the value of motor vehicles that are 20 years old or older for property tax purposes, by providing that no vehicle of said age shall be presumed to have been maintained or restored to either t...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 022)
SB10PassAmend KRS 216B.0425 to define the terms "acute stroke ready hospital certification" and "comprehensive stroke center certification"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of acute stroke ready hospitals, comprehensive ...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 9)
SB28PassAmend KRS 528.010 to include in the definition of "gambling device" an electronic device used to facilitate Internet gambling and to define "simulated gambling program"; EMERGENCY.
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 5)
SB153PassOmnibus revision of the motor carrier statutes, KRS Chapter 281; repeal and reenact KRS 281.010 to consolidate various definition sections and set forth definitions for the chapter; amend KRS 281.590, regarding legislative intent, to eliminate refere...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 019)
SB108PassAmend some sections of KRS Chapter 407 and create other sections to adopt, with some variation, the 2008 amendments to the language of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, published by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State L...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 018)
HB232PassAmend KRS 158.140 to allow the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics to award a high school diploma; allow the local school district to award a joint diploma with the Craft Academy; amend KRS 164.002 to include the Craft Academy in ...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 15)
SB61PassAmend KRS 304.17A-257 to require that health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screening regardless of the billing code or other procedure performed in the same clinical encounter and as part of ongoing prevention; effective January 1, 2016.
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 10)
SB119PassAmend KRS 156.095 to require the Department of Education to develop and maintain in a list of available child abuse and neglect prevention, recognition, and reporting training for school administrators, certified personnel, and classified personnel; ...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 7)
HB234PassAmend KRS 199.8943 to clarify participating agencies and establish schedule for implementing a quality-based graduated early care and education program rating system for providers; require the Early Childhood Advisory Council to submit an annual repo...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 016)
SB78PassAmend KRS 376.268 to define "contents" and "reasonable charges"; amend KRS 376.275, relating to towing and storage liens on motor vehicles, to allow the sale of a vehicle's contents to satisfy a lien for towing and storage charges; provide that a tow...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 8)
HB148PassAmend KRS 330.030 to include non-auctioneer co-owners of an auction house who actively participate in the operation of the auction house to the list of those who are prohibited from advertising or acting as an auction house operator without a license...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 14)
SB62PassAmend KRS 61.637 to provide that elected officials who are reelected to a new term of office in the same position and who then retire following reelection but prior to taking the new term of office shall be deemed to have a prearranged agreement and ...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 025)
HB24PassCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit any person from possessing one gram or more of pure dextromethorphan or dextromethorphan that has been extracted from solid or liquid form; prohibit sale of products containing dextromethorphan as t...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 023)
SB75PassAmend KRS 214.155 to include krabbe disease testing as part of the newborn screening program.
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 6)
SB186PassCreate new sections of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 to require notice and method of notice of high-volume horizontal fracturing; require baseline water quality testing and exemption from requirements; require information disclosures to the cabinet for a ve...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 021)
HB348PassAmend KRS 65A.010 to clarify that a private entity does not include an entity that is created wholly or in part by a local government or one whose membership includes appointees by a local government, or whose voting membership includes ex-officio lo...
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 017)
HB241PassAmend KRS 21A.110 to modify the method of calculating the per diem salary for retired judges or justices called to temporary active judicial service.
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2015-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 12)
HB134PassAmend KRS 138.510 to exempt a two day international horse racing event that distributes more than $20,000,000 in purses and awards from the excise tax imposed on pari-mutuel wagering; make the exemption apply to money wagered at the track on live rac...
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2015-03-17
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 04)
HB152PassCreate a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to modify the telecommunications deregulation plan in KRS 278.541 et. seq.; end most Public Service Commission authority over exchanges with 15,000 or more housing units; for less populous exchanges, PSC jurisd...
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2015-03-12
signed by Governor (Acts ch. 002)
SB77PassAmend KRS 311.621 to define "medical order for scope of treatment"; create a new section of KRS 311.621 to 311.643 to permit the completion of a medical order for scope of treatment directing medical interventions; require the Kentucky Board of Medic...
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2015-03-12
signed by Governor (Acts ch. 003)
HB443Engross

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Amend KRS 45A.030 and 45A.075 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to provide an explicit framework for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) as an alternative method of procurement, construction, or financing of capital projects and se...
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2015-03-11
discharge petition filed
HB247Engross

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Amend KRS 164.298 to update nursing education accreditation requirements; amend KRS 217.015 to add advanced practice registered nurse to definition of prescription; amend KRS 314.011 to update definitions; amend KRS 314.025 to delete reference to nur...
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2015-03-11
To House Rules Committee
SB27Engross

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Propose to amend Section 33 of the Constitution of Kentucky to clarify standards relating to redistricting and to require the General Assembly to remain in continuous session, without pay to the members, for the sole purpose of redistricting if the G...
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2015-03-11
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
HB42Engross

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Amend KRS 625.090 to expand the requisite grounds for the termination of parental rights to include the attempted or actual infliction of death or serious physical injury to any child, or to the parent, stepparent, de facto custodian, or guardian of ...
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2015-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB4Engross

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to specify how the phrase "individual, private setting" shall be interpreted in informed consent situations.
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2015-03-11
posted in committee
HB215Intro

Sine Die
Amend KRS 212.786 to reduce the number of members on the independent district boards of health; remove proportional representation of certain professions; amend to population requirements for appointments.
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2015-03-11
To House Health and Welfare Committee
HB373Intro

Sine Die
Amend KRS 242.020 to permit a local option question to be held on a primary or a regular election day; amend 242.030 to establish deadline and procedures for the filing of petitions; amend KRS 242.060 to establish who will pay for a local option ques...
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2015-03-11
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
HB237Intro

Sine Die
Amend KRS 205.200 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a substance abuse screening program for applicants and recipients of public assistance who have a felony or misdemeanor history of substance abuse; permit the cabine...
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2015-03-11
posted in committee
HB67Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 164.7874 to define the minimum number of cumulative credit hours needed to be considered "on track to graduate" at the end of each award period for KEES scholarship renewal requirements.
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2015-03-11
3rd reading, defeated 15-21 with Committee Substitute
HB145Engross

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated...
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2015-03-11
discharge petition filed
HB393Intro

Sine Die
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to create the Kentucky Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, to define terms; set out factual findings by the General Assembly; require a determination of fetal age prior to performing an abortion; prohibit ...
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2015-03-11
posted in committee
HB121Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 202A.028 to allow mental health examinations for the purposes of 72-hour holds to be performed via telehealth.
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2015-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HB339Engross

Sine Die
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the National Day of the Cowboy in Kentucky.
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2015-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SB90Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 278.600 to define "storage" and amend a definition to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal; amend KRS 278.610 to delete the requirement that the Public ...
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2015-03-11
To House Tourism Development and Energy Committee
HB108Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 16.505 to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member; make technical amendments; amend KRS ...
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2015-03-11
To House Rules Committee
HB2Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employees" of retail stores and service industries to increase the threshold of business that applies to the employer from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 ...
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2015-03-11
discharge petition filed
SB16Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 156.160 to allow computer programming language courses to be accepted as meeting foreign language requirements in the public schools; amend KRS 164.002 to define "computer programming language"; amend KRS 164.4785 to ensure that computer pr...
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2015-03-11
taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
HB1Engross

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Propose to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to confer upon the proper authority of any city or county the power to levy a local option sales and use tax, subject to specifically enumerated conditions...
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2015-03-11
discharge petition filed
HB344Engross

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to establish the parameters and requirements for the levy of local option sales and use taxes, if a proposed constitutional amendment allowing such a levy is approved; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to e...
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2015-03-11
discharge petition filed
SB120Engross

Sine Die
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; create a process for providers to request an administrative appeals hearings from the Department for Medicaid Services for reimbursement by a Medicaid managed care organization.
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2015-03-10
posted in committee
SB87Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 304.17A-254 to establish a policy governing the procedures for an insurer changing an existing agreement with a provider; amend KRS 304.17A-545 to establish a policy governing he procedures for a Managed Care Organization changing an existi...
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2015-03-10
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
HB31Intro

Sine Die
Propose to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit members of the General Assembly from receiving legislative pay for a special session that has been called by the Governor because the General Assembly adjourned without passing a...
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2015-03-10
posted in committee
SB72Engross

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Amend KRS 199.896 to require licensed child-care centers that provide instructional and educational programs for preschool-aged children and that operate for a maximum of 20 hours per week and which a child attends for no more than 16 hours per week ...
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2015-03-10
posted in committee
SB132Engross

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to allow a superintendent to select the principal in a school identified as an initial intervention school or, with local board approval, choose other intervention options; define initial intervention school; d...
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2015-03-10
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015
SB6Engross

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Establish KRS Chapter 216C; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a medical review panel system for use in civil litigation relating to health care providers, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered heal...
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2015-03-10
discharge petition filed
SB144Engross

Sine Die
Amend KRS 309.335 to require applicants for licensure as a diabetes educator to meet a requirement for hours worked under supervision as promulgated in administrative regulation by the board.
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2015-03-10
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015
HB220Intro

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Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt feed and feed additives, seeds, commercial fertilizers, farm chemicals, farm machinery, water, fuels, and on-farm facilities used in the production of equine from the sales and use tax; amend KRS 130.470 to conform; EFFECT...
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2015-03-10
discharge petition filed
HB120Intro

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to require the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent the enforcement of federal acts that violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution; EMERGENCY.
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2015-03-10
posted in committee
HB119Intro

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to delay the effective date of ordinary administrative regulations with a major economic impact until the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define major...
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2015-03-10
posted in committee
HB499Engross

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Amend KRS 157.410 to require the chief state school officer to prepare estimates for school district fund allotment and establish an incremental schedule for fund disbursement, allotment revisions, and equalization.
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2015-03-10
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
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