AN ACT relating to the establishment of a grant program to promote investments in Kentucky businesses, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2022, allowing the Department of Revenue to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund and allowing no more than $15 million dollars of insurance premiums tax credit to be awarded; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting of the tax credit to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; provide that Sections 1 to 10 of this Act may be cited as the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2022.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House Passage
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 18, 2022
Last action Apr 13, 2022
Floor votes · House Mar 29, 2022
How they voted
81–4
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 93
Mar 29, 2022
D
Democratic25
72% Yea
R
Republican68
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
9
Amendments
2
Apr 13, 2022
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed
lower
Mar 30, 2022
Committee
to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
upper
Mar 30, 2022
Upper · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 30, 2022
Upper · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 88-4 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 29, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Feb 11, 2022
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed
lower
Feb 1, 2022
Committee
recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
lower
Jan 19, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
lower
Jan 18, 2022
Committee
to Agriculture (H)
lower
Jan 18, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Jan 18, 2022
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
23 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Adam Bowling
RRepublican
P
Brandon Reed
RRepublican
P
C. Ed Massey
RRepublican
P
Chris Freeland
RRepublican
P
Dan Fister
RRepublican
P
Daniel Elliott
RRepublican
P
David Hale
RRepublican
P
Derek Lewis
RRepublican
P
John Blanton
RRepublican
P
Jonathan Dixon
RRepublican
P
Josh Calloway
RRepublican
P
Kim King
RRepublican
P
Matt Koch
RRepublican
P
Melinda Gibbons Prunty
RRepublican
P
Nancy Tate
RRepublican
P
Norma Kirk-McCormick
RRepublican
P
Phillip Pratt
RRepublican
P
Richard Heath
RRepublican
P
Russell Webber
RRepublican
P
Samara Heavrin
RRepublican
P
Tom Smith
RRepublican
P
Walker Thomas
RRepublican
P
William Lawrence
RRepublican
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