| HB203 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 121.180 to establish a single threshold for campaign finance reporting; EFFECTIVE November 4, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Bill defeated 43-49 |
| HB449 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.346 to require schools that remain classified as persistently low-achieving for four years to implement the internal innovation option; provide requirements of the internal innovation option.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate |
| HB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 6.350 to specify that the actuarial analysis required on retirement legislation shall include the impact on funding levels and unfunded liabilities over time; specify the qualification requirements of the actuary completing the analysis; am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| HB270 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 214.185 to permit mental health professionals to provide outpatient mental health counseling to minors aged 16 and older upon their request without the consent of a parent or guardian and to permit mental health services to be provided to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 246.010 to include bees within the definition of "livestock."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Conference Committee appointed in Senate |
| HB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 222.005 to define "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse"; amend KRS 222.431 to permit a person meeting the definition of "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse" to be court ordered to treatment; amend KRS 222.432 to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| HB353 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 6.521, 6.525, 6.577, 21.345, 21.402, 21.405, 21.410, 21.420, and 21.427 to make technical and clerical changes for the Legislative Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| SB115 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Books for Brains Program to promote the development of a comprehensive statewide program for encouraging preschool children to develop an appreciation of books; attach the program to the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| HB412 | Engross
Sine Die | Confirm Executive Orders 2014-460 and 2014-559, which reorganize various offices in the Department of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.017 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| HB236 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.352 to allow a high school student enrolled in the district to be appointed to the superintendent screening committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| SB91 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 96.530 and KRS 96.740 to require members appointed to city utility commissions and municipal utility boards to be customers of the utility; requirement that these appointees be residents, taxpayers and voters of the city is deleted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB188 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.040 to require unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect or human trafficking of a child occurred; amend KRS 620.050 to require ongoing unannounced visits to the residence or location wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| HCR176 | Engross
Sine Die | Create the Guardianship, Custodianship, Civil Commitment, and Mental Competency Task Force to consider changes to related policies, programs, and statutes; require a report to be produced by January 5, 2016; appoiint members of the task force; subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB212 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 117.075 and 117.085 to allow voters who on account of age, disability, or illness are not able to appear at the polls on election day to cast an absentee ballot on those days in-person absentee voting is conducted in the county clerk's offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| SB114 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 237.110 to prohibit administrative regulations which would require concealed deadly weapon license applicants to clean guns in class; replace hands-on classroom gun cleaning requirements with instructor demonstrations; allow firearms safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| SB86 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to include the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) within the definition of "nationally recognized accreditation organization."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
floor amendments (2) and (3-title) filed |
| SB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to require the Supreme Court to analyze and propose adjustments to the Commonwealth's judicial circuits and districts and the judicial assignments therein to account for population changes and caseloads in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| HB469 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to establish a Kentucky Citizens' Commission on Judicial and Legislative Compensation with provisions relating to membership, operation, and disposition and effect of its recommendations; amend KRS 6.190, 48.11...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Conference Committee appointed in Senate |
| HB4 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 56.8605 to redefine "financing agreement" and "funding notes" to include financing or refinancing of pension obligations owed to Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System under KRS 161.550(1)(b); amend KRS 56.868 to authorize the Kentucky Asset/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Free Conference Committee appointed in House |
| SB34 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 189A, relating to driving under the influence, to expand the look-back window for prior offenses from five years to ten years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| SCR103 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Workforce Oversight Task Force to study and develop recommendations concerning the benefits, investments, and funding of workforce education; establish task force membership; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
placed in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 23, 2015 |
| HB443 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
discharge petition filed |
| HB247 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Rules Committee |
| SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HB42 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to specify how the phrase "individual, private setting" shall be interpreted in informed consent situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
posted in committee |
| HB67 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
3rd reading, defeated 15-21 with Committee Substitute |
| HB145 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
discharge petition filed |
| HB121 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 202A.028 to allow mental health examinations for the purposes of 72-hour holds to be performed via telehealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB339 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the National Day of the Cowboy in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB90 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Tourism Development and Energy Committee |
| HB108 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
discharge petition filed |
| SB16 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
discharge petition filed |
| HB344 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
discharge petition filed |
| SB120 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
posted in committee |
| SB87 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) |
| SB72 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
posted in committee |
| HJR63 | Engross
Sine Die | Designate the Honor and Remember Flag as an emblem of the service and sacrifice by the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB132 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015 |
| SB6 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
discharge petition filed |
| SJR106 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education to develop a performance-based funding model for the public postsecondary education institutions; identify guiding principles and constraints; establish metrics that recognize difference of missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB144 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015 |
| HB499 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar |
| HB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 95A.262 to require the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to pay for workers' compensation for paid and volunteer firefighters; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to create a presumption of an occupational ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| SCR147 | Engross
Sine Die | Urge the Department of Defense and the United States Army to reconsider proposed cuts to Fort Knox and Fort Campbell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety Committee |
| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.010 to exclude all educational buildings and facilities from meeting the requirements of the prevailing wage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.183 to permit students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination and to require local boards of education to ensure that the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
discharge petition filed |
| SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly or an agency or committee it creates to review, approve, or disapprove any administrative regulation of the executive branch during or between regular sessions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
posted in committee |
