Kentucky Bills

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 274: AN ACT authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law, and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable, or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 140)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 378: AN ACT relating to the Labor Cabinet. Omnibus provisions relating to the Labor Cabinet; amend KRS 189.635 to allow accident reports to be given to OSHA investigators without a subpoena; amend KRS 336.020 to rename divisions and change method of nomination for commissioner and director; amend KRS 337.010 to update ways that an employee may receive wages and prohibit activation fees for wages on a debit card; amend KRS 336.050 to give the secretary discretion to prosecute a violation of a wage and hour law; amend KRS 337.070 to provide that a statement of wages may be paper or electronic as long as employees have access to a computer and printer; amend KRS 342.0011 relating to the definition of commissioner; amend KRS 342.122 to change the names of Labor Cabinet divisions; amend KRS 342.213 and 342.228 to change the procedure for nominating commissioners; amend KRS 342.230 to make changes to the commissioner's authority; amend KRS 342.347 relating to exemptions under open records laws; amend KRS 12.020 to move and rename divisions; repeal the following: KRS 336.140, 336.151, 336.152, 336.153, 336.156, 336.162, 336.164, 336,165, 336,1221, 336,1662, 336,1663 and 336.1664.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 134)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 135: AN ACT relating to nonprofit health service corporations. Amend KRS 304.32-130 to remove the requirement that dues may not result in excess reserves; and to establish alternative criteria for the determination of member or subscriber dues for nonprofit hospital, medical-surgical, dental, or other health service plan.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 127)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 224: AN ACT relating to civil actions involving sexual misconduct. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to extend the civil statute of limitations for an illness or injury suffered as a result of an act or series of acts against a person 18 years or older that meets the criteria of an offense under KRS Chapters 510, 529, 530, or 531 to five years unless the civil defendant was convicted of the offense, in which case there is no statute of limitations.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 114)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 161: AN ACT relating to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to set aside a minimum of 3% of the value of all state contracts for goods and services for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses; require that when an item has been designated as a set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, that the invitations for bids shall be confined to those qualified small businesses; if fewer than three qualified bids are submitted for an item and if the cabinet determines that the bids received are not cost effective, then the cabinet may open bidding to other businesses.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 147)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 170: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Amend KRS 12.020 to create, within the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Office of Film and Tourism Development; abolish the Office of Sports Authority and the Office of Research and Administration; abolish the Commission on Small Business Advocacy within the cabinet; confirm Executive Order 2016-856.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 110)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 83: AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife. Amend KRS 150.390 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to undertake measures if deer and elk pose a significant risk to human safety from automobile accidents; identify permissive measures for the department to implement including special hunts and issuance of more tags.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 124)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 75: AN ACT relating to campaign finance. Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for "accept" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 195: AN ACT relating to expungement of juvenile records. Amend KRS 610.330 to expand the expungement and sealing of juvenile records and create an automatic process.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 112)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 11: AN ACT relating to nuclear power. Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate the requirement that the facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate the requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate the requirement that the facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire a consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 27, 2017

SB 32: AN ACT relating to the tracking of drug convictions. Amend KRS 218A.202 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to forward drug conviction data to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for inclusion in the KASPER electronic monitoring system.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 120)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 27, 2017

HB 473: AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. Amend KRS 341.070 to clarify who is a subject employer; amend KRS 341.191 to set forth requirements regarding the disclosure of information and records; amend 341.540 to set forth requirements for successor employers; and amend KRS 341.614 to state that delinquent surcharge and interest collected after July 31, 2017 shall be deposited into the penalty and interest account; amend KRS 341.990 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 133)