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signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 246: 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.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 105)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 153: AN ACT relating to postsecondary funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 establishing a comprehensive funding model for the allocation of state appropriations to public postsecondary institutions based on student success, course completion, and other components; establish the public university sector formula and the KCTCS sector formula in the model and require 100% of allocable resources to be distributed through the formulas; establish the funding parameters for each formula; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to implement the funding model; include hold-harmless and stop-loss provisions in the formulas through 2021; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to establish a working group to review the model every three years; direct the Office of the State Budget Director to distribute the funds as determined by the model, including the performance funds appropriated in the 2016 budget bill; establish the Postsecondary Education Performance Fund for distribution of the funds allocated through the model; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 52)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 100: AN ACT relating to distilled spirits. Amend KRS 241.010 to define "vintage distilled spirits"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to regulate the selling and reselling of vintage distilled spirits; amend KRS 243.0305 to allow distillers to sell at fairs, festivals, and similar events; amend KRS 243.480 to change penalties applying to retail sales and to other violations; amend KRS 244.370 to apply Kentucky whiskey requirements to whiskey produced from grains that are cooked, fermented, and distilled in Kentucky; Sections 1 and 2 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 59)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 262: AN ACT relating to federally mandated background checks and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require all employees of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, including contract staff, with access to federal tax information to submit to a criminal background investigation and require the promulgation of administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require all employees of the Department of Revenue, including contract staff, with access to federal tax information to submit to a criminal background investigation and require the promulgation of administrative regulations; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 097)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 284: AN ACT relating to property valuation and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 132.690, relating to property valuation administrator (PVA) inspections to establish that improvements to real property be inspected on-site, in person visually by the PVA or his or her deputy, and that subsequent inspections may be either on-site, through the use of digital imaging technology, or by other means approved by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 133.120 to provide for an extension of PVA taxpayer conferences and subsequent appeals for up to 25 days, as approved by the department; amend KRS 133.030, relative to the county board of assessment appeals, to accommodate the changes relative to the extension of appeals; amend KRS 133.125, 132.220, and 133.045 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 081)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 453: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Claims Commission. Establish KRS Chapter 49 for the creation of the Kentucky Claims Commission; reassign all duties and responsibilities of the Board of Claims, Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals, and Crime Victims Compensation Board to the Kentucky Claims Commission by amending various statutes; raise the cap for negligence claims against the Commonwealth for a single claim from $200,000 to $250,000 and for multiple claims from $350,000 to $400,000; raise the threshold from $1,000 to $2,500 for negligence claims that may be investigated by the commission; raise the threshold from $1,000 to $2,500 for contested negligence claims that shall receive a hearing; raise the threshold for appeals of the commission's awards for negligence from $1,000 to $2,500; provide that negligence claims less than $250 may not be brought before the commission; shorten the time a crime victim may file a claim from 5 years to 2 years; repeal KRS 44.075, 44.080, 131.310, 131.315, 131.320, 131.330, and 346.030; confirm Executive Order 2016-576.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 74)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 107: AN ACT relating to gubernatorial appointments and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 63.080 to permit the Governor or other appointing authority to remove and replace certain board or council appointments to comply with statutory proportional representation requirements for the board or council and to permit the Governor to remove and replace appointments if a board or council is unable to perform its statutory duties; amend KRS 156.029, 164.011, 164.131, 164.180, 164.321, 164.350, 164.821, and 164.830 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 101)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 410: AN ACT relating to operator's licenses and personal identification cards and making an appropriation therefor. Amend KRS 186.410 to specify that the Transportation Cabinet is the issuing agency for operator's licenses and personal identification cards; allow applications through alternative technology, including KYTC mobile units; establish a base renewal period of 8 years for operator's licenses and personal ID cards; require drivers under 18 who apply for an instruction permit to enroll in a driver education course; repeal and reenact KRS 186.412 to set forth the application process for citizens and permanent residents to apply for operator's licenses and instruction permits; identify the information required in the application process; require electronic scanning of supporting documents used in the application process; provide exceptions for applicants for non-enhanced documents; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application process for immigrants who can show proof of legal presence to apply for operator's licenses and instruction permits; require that immigrants applying for an operator's license apply with the Transportation Cabinet instead of the circuit clerk; require verification through the SAVE alien verification system; require an immigrant with a change in status to update information with the Transportation Cabinet within 10 days; state that licenses issued under this section are good for the length of time a person's visa is valid or 8 years, whichever is shorter; specify that if an immigrant does not have a date certain on his or her immigration status, the license issued will be valid for 1 year; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application procedures for citizens and permanent residents to apply for personal identification cards; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the application procedures for immigrants who can show proof of legal presence to apply for personal identification cards, with similar limitations and restrictions as for operator's licenses; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish the form and composition of operator's licenses and personal identification cards, including the requirements for photographs taken; require name changes through marriage, divorce, or other name changes to conform to an applicant's name on file with the Social Security Administration; allow photoless IDs for individuals with religious objections; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish procedures and fees for the child ID program; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to establish procedures for the issuance of personal identification cards or operator's licenses to inmates being released from state and federal correctional institutions and individuals on probation and parole; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to allow renewal by mail for active duty members of the military stationed outside the Commonwealth, their spouses and dependents; allow a 90-day extension for active duty military members, their spouses and dependents returning home to renew their licenses; set forth procedures and requirements for the issuance of a "veteran" notation on an operator's license or personal ID card; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop a system of voluntary enhanced secure licenses and personal ID cards; identify features of the system; give all applicants, including individuals coming into Kentucky from another state, the option to apply for an enhanced secure identity document; allow current holders of non-enhanced secure identity documents the option to apply for an enhanced secure identity document; allow individuals ineligible under federal standards for an enhanced secure identity document to apply for a non-enhanced secure identity document; set same fees for both enhanced secure and non-enhanced secure identity documents; clarify that electronic connectivity with agencies or organizations must be limited to the minimum amount of data necessary to verify data presented by the applicant, process the application, and produce and distribute the identity documents, and limit data-sharing as required under the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act; require the KYTC to promulgate administrative regulations to set standards for the voluntary enhanced secure identity document system; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to set forth the documents required to apply for an enhanced secure identity document; amend KRS 186.401 to redefine "driver's license" and define "operator's license"; amend KRS 186.4101 to allow the Transportation Cabinet, within the first 4 years of the effective date of the Act, to issue identity documents with terms of both 4 and 8 years in order to accommodate the transition to an 8-year issuance period; amend KRS 186.4125 to require a certified copy of a birth certificate to apply for a voluntary enhanced secure identity document; retain existing language allowing the use of an original hospital birth certificate for a non-enhanced secure identity document; require the KYTC to apply to DHS for a waiver for an exception to allow hospital birth certificates to be used for voluntary enhanced secure identity documents; amend KRS 186.442 to clarify procedures for the issuance of a restricted "Kentucky Only" operator's license; repeal and reenact KRS 186.531 to set fees for instruction permits, operator's licenses, and personal identification cards; set forth the distribution of fees; specify that the fees for a 4-year license issued within the first 4 years after the effective date of the Act shall be 50% of the fee listed, with all distributions subsequently reduced by 50%; specify that fees for identity documents applied for using alternative technology shall be distributed in the same manner as identity documents applied for with the circuit clerk; set forth procedures for voluntary donations to promote organ donation; establish donation levels of $2 for an 8-year document and $1 for a document with a term of less than 8 years; require donations to be forwarded to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life and appropriate funds to promote an organ donation program; clarify that a person who wishes to rescind a declaration of making an anatomical gift should contact the Trust for Life rather than the person’s circuit clerk; establish a $30 application fee for operator's licenses and personal identification cards for applicants that are not US citizens or permanent residents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to establish the circuit court clerk salary account; set forth streams of income including a portion of fees under Sections 21 and 24 of the Act; appropriate money in the fund to hire additional deputy circuit clerks and provide salary adjustments to deputy circuit clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to establish the KYTC photo license account; set forth stream of income, including a portion of the fees under Section 21 of this Act; appropriate moneys in the fund for the purpose of verifying, creating, and distributing enhanced secure identity documents; amend KRS 186.540 to clarify that fees for corrected licenses be set as provided in Section 21 of the Act; require the Transportation Cabinet to issue a corrected license free of charge to an individual who is mailed an identity document that contains an error; repeal, reenact, and renumber KRS 186. 6401 as KRS 186.635 to conform and to bring the section into the statutory range dealing with operator's licenses; amend KRS 281A.170 to require that a commercial driver's license contain a denotation that the license either does or does not comply with the requirements of federal law and can be used for federal identification purposes; set an 8-year term for CDLs; amend KRS 281A.120 to clarify that only citizens and permanent residents of the United States are eligible to receive a CDL; amend KRS 281A.150 to set forth the fees established by the Transportation Cabinet for application and issuance of CDLs and eliminate outdated references; amend KRS 186.010 to define "identity document" and "travel ID"; adjust the effective date so that Section 10, which requires the establishment for a voluntary enhanced secure identity document system by the KYTC, will take effect on the regular effective date for legislation from the 2017 Regular Session, with other sections of the Act taking effect January 1, 2019; amend KRS 15A.358, 186.4125, 186.430, 186.435, 186.440, 186.450, 186.480, 186.490, 186.520, 186.535, 186.570, 186.579, 189.011, 281A.140, and 281A.160 to conform; repeal KRS 186.495 and 186.5315; EFFECTIVE 1/1/2019; APPROPRIATION.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 100)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 351: AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems agency participation and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 61.522 to remove installments as a payment option for agencies required to pay the actuarial costs for ceasing participation in the Kentucky Retirement Systems; clarify conditions in which an employee seeking to transfer funds to the ceasing employer's alternative retirement program is not included in the employer actuarial cost calculation; specify that the systems shall develop separate assumptions for determining the employer's cost to cease participation; specify the formula for determining the assumed rate of return in the cost calculation; provide noncodified language to state the provisions shall apply retroactively to any matter pending before the Kentucky Retirement Systems board; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 104)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 343: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Amend KRS 12.020 and 12.023 to include the Kentucky Communications Network Authority; establish Subchapter 15 of KRS Chapter 154 and create new sections to create the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and its board; define terms; specify duties of the Authority and the Board; amend KRS 42.732 to add the executive director of the Kentucky Communications Network Authority to the KY Information Technology Advisory Council; confirm Executive Order 2016-513.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 089)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 21: AN ACT relating to use of experimental treatments for terminal illnesses. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit eligible patients to use investigational drugs, biological products, or devices for a terminal illness; establish the conditions for use of such experimental treatments; prohibit sanctions of health care providers; clarify the duties of health care insurers regarding experimental treatments; prohibit certain actions by state officials.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 65)
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