Kentucky Senator Stephen Meredith [R]

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KYSB91VetoCreate new sections of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to: require the Transportation Cabinet to establish a driver licensing regional office in each senatorial district; allow third-party entities to apply to the Transportation Cabinet to be approved to acce...
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2024-04-19
line items vetoed
KYSB28VetoAmend KRS 311.380 to add definitions; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a podiatry license; and amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric r...
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2024-04-18
Vetoed
KYSB118PassAmend KRS 511.070 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property; require any owner or lessee who marks his or her real property in such a manner to also provide clear written notice forbid...
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2024-04-17
signed by Governor
KYSR129Intro
25%
Confirm the appointment of Jeff Raymer to the Fish and Wildlife Commission for a term expiring on December 31, 2026.
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2024-04-15
adopted 37-0
KYSR167PassAdjourn in honor and loving memory of Jessie "Jess" J. Adkins.
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2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote
KYSR4PassHonor Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.
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2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote
KYSR2PassHonor the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
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2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote
KYSB6Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusa...
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2024-04-12
posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
KYSR207PassRecognize and commend the Louisville Fire Department rescue squad that executed a rescue on the Clark Memorial Bridge, and the Louisville Metro Police and emergency medical services personnel that responded to the scene.
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2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote
KYSR1PassHonor the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
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2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote
KYSB20PassAmend KRS 439.3401 to include in the definition of "violent offender" a person who has been convicted of burglary in the first degree as described in KRS 511.020(1)(a), assault in the second degree as described in KRS 508.020(1)(b) or (c), and wanton...
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2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature
KYSB70PassCreate a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms; establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the endowment agreement; establish that a donor or a donor's lega...
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2024-04-09
signed by Governor
KYSB128PassCreate a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age; require the program to exist to provide minors with life skills and employment skills; require that the primary benef...
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2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature
KYSB151PassAmend KRS 600.020 to define "child-specific foster home"; amend KRS 620.140 to allow a child to submit to the District Court the names of possible relative or fictive kin caregivers whom the child could be placed with if the court removes the child f...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor
KYSB188PassCreate new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators to establish reasonably adequate and accessible p...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor
KYSB127PassCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense inv...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor
KYSB153Engross
50%
Amend KRS 29A.080 to allow an individual age 70 or older to elect to be permanently excused from jury service; require this option to be prominently displayed at the top of the juror qualification form; require a prospective juror age 70 or older to ...
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2024-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee
KYSB147Engross
50%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in pro...
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2024-03-26
To House Rules Committee
KYSB295Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
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2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB266Engross
50%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a bot from communicating or interacting with another person in Kentucky online with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identify for the purpose of knowingly dec...
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2024-03-25
To House Committee On Committees
KYSCR187Intro
25%
Establish the Health Care Disparities Task Force; establish task force membership; require task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Rules Committee
KYSB239Engross
50%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedu...
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2024-03-22
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB143Enroll
75%
Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification...
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2024-03-21
delivered to Secretary of State
KYSR213PassRecognize March 21, 2024, as World Down Syndrome Day in Kentucky.
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2024-03-21
adopted by voice vote
KYSB110Engross
50%
Amend KRS 403.211 to allow a child support action to be filed at any time following conception in the county where the mother resides.
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
KYSB27Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
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2024-03-12
To House Health Services Committee
KYSB130Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as...
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2024-03-11
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB8Engross
50%
Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including ...
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2024-03-08
To House Education Committee
KYSB23Engross
50%
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of the real property that is assessed after the later of the year the owner t...
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2024-03-07
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
KYSB24Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
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2024-03-06
To House Health Services Committee
KYSB366Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide for training for forensic lab technicians; require any forensic lab technician that completes training provided for by the department to remain emplo...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYSB358Intro
25%
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submis...
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2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee
KYSB336Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYSR39PassRecognize August 2024 as Railroad Crossings Safety Awareness Month in Kentucky.
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2024-02-29
adopted by voice vote
KYSB5PassAmend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands.
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2024-02-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 2)
KYSR147PassDesignating March 2024 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
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2024-02-29
adopted by voice vote
KYSB222Intro
25%
Amend KRS 205.557 to make a technical correction.
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2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB221Intro
25%
Amend KRS 211.430 to make a technical correction.
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2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB224Intro
25%
Amend KRS 205.5518 to make a technical correction.
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2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB223Intro
25%
Amend KRS 216.525 to include gender-neutral language.
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2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB246Intro
25%
Amend KRS 158.192 to require the local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if t...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee
KYSR124PassHonor George Smith on being named pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Leitchfield.
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2024-02-23
adopted by voice vote
KYSB7Engross
50%
Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an elig...
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2024-02-22
To House Education Committee
KYSB211Intro
25%
Amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses whose primary scope of practice focuses on patients 50 years of age or older to complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; amend KRS 311.844 to require physic...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB219Intro
25%
Amend KRS 304.17A-270 to include medical laboratories in the definition of "provider"; amend KRS 205.522 to require the state Medicaid program to comply with any willing provider law; make technical amendments; require the Cabinet for Health and Fami...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB189Intro
25%
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
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2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee
KYSR125PassHonor Charlotte Whittaker, AARP Kentucky Volunteer State President, upon her retirement.
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2024-02-08
adopted by voice vote
KYSB177Intro
25%
Amend KRS 189.010 to define "super speeder"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to assess a fee of $200 to any person convicted as a super speeder; assess a fee of $50 and require the suspension of driving privileges for not making a timely paym...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYSR123PassCall upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
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2024-02-06
adopted by voice vote
KYSR103PassDesignate February 2024 as American Heart Month and to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and the importance of knowing one's cholesterol.
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2024-02-01
adopted by voice vote
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