AN ACT relating to solid waste management and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 109.041 to prohibit a county or waste management district from prohibiting or restricting materials recovery by a city in a county containing a consolidated local government; prohibit the consolidated local government or waste management district from hindering, delaying, impairing, prohibiting, or impeding a city or its contractors from utilizing a solid waste management facility; prohibit a county or waste management district from levying a fee that is based on the composition of the solid waste stream of the city if the waste stream is in conformity with state and federal law for the use of the solid waste management facility receiving the waste; amend KRS 109.115 to provide for the mayoral appointment of a seven-member board of directors of a waste management district for a county containing a consolidated local government and to restrict current appointment language to other counties; establish a two-year term for directors and require appointment of new board; amend KRS 109.120 to require that waste management district rules and regulations in counties containing a consolidated local government be approved by the appropriate legislative body; provide that rules and regulations of a district that were adopted prior to the effective date of this Act shall sunset on August 31, 2017, unless reauthorize by the new board; require that districts make notices, meeting agenda's and minutes available on a Web site operated by the consolidated local government; declare offices of board in county containing a consolidated local government vacant; EMERGENCY.
Bill status
signed
all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Mar 2017
Senate Passage
Mar 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Feb 7, 2017
Signed Mar 21, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
6
Committee
5
Amendments
4
Mar 21, 2017
Signed into law
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 105)
legislature
Mar 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Bill passed 60-30
legislature
Mar 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
House concurred in Senate floor amendment (1)
legislature
Mar 15, 2017
Introduced
Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (1)
legislature
Mar 15, 2017
Committee
To Rules (H)
legislature
Mar 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
legislature
Mar 8, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (1) filed
legislature
Mar 8, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Reported favorably, to Rules
legislature
Feb 24, 2017
Committee
To State & Local Government (S)
legislature
Feb 21, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
legislature
Feb 16, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
legislature
Feb 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
legislature
Feb 9, 2017
Committee
To Local Government (H)
legislature
Feb 7, 2017
Introduced
Introduced in House
legislature
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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