Kentucky Bills

in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 2, 2017

HB 431: AN ACT relating to the Joint Funding Administration Program. Require the 2017-2018 Joint Funding Administration allocation be disbursed to the Area Development Districts in the same manner and in the same amount as the allocation and disbursement for the fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, except that the amounts shall be reduced by the 9% budget reduction for the fiscal year 2017-2018; establish the Joint Funding Administration Task Force; establish the membership of the task force; require monthly meetings during the 2017 Interim of the General Assembly; require a report of the task force to be submitted on or before December 1, 2017.

Floor amendment (4) and (5-title) filed

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in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 2, 2017

HB 65: AN ACT relating to fishing license exemptions. Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the sport fishing license exemption for resident farmland owners and create a new sport fishing license exemption for private landowners and their spouses, dependents, tenants, and invited guests when fishing on their property from ponds or lakes that do not allow fish entry from or exit to public waters.

Floor amendment (1) filed

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in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 2, 2017

HB 354: AN ACT relating to railroads. Amend KRS 277.200 to prohibit a railroad company from stopping trains on the tracks and obstructing a private road that serves as the only entrance to a residence; amend KRS 277.990 to set fine for violation of KRS 277.200 at between $500 and $5,000.

Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 1, 2017

SB 112: AN ACT relating to funding for the State Police Retirement System, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Appropriate $23,354,400 in fiscal year 2016-2017 and $125,000,000 in fiscal year 2017-2018 from the Kentucky permanent pension fund to the Kentucky Retirement Systems and apply the appropriation to the unfunded liability of the State Police Retirement System pension fund; EMERGENCY.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

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in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 1, 2017

HCR 139: Create the Property Tax Calendar Oversight Task Force to study the property tax calendar and to determine if property taxes can be paid on another due date or on a monthly or quarterly basis; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2017 Interim and to submit any proposed findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2017.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

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in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 1, 2017

HR 141: Amend House Rule 49 of the 2017 House of Representataives to change the posting requirement for bills and resolutions from one legislative day to three calendar days.

To State Government (H)

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 1, 2017

SB 110: AN ACT relating to operator's licenses and personal identification cards for inmates and released offenders. Amend KRS 186.412 to allow prisoners released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons or under the supervision of the United States Probation Office to obtain operator's licenses and personal identification cards in the same manner as individuals released from the custody of the Department of Corrections or under the supervision of the Division of Probation and Parole; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to allow the issuance of operator's licenses to current federal and state inmates who are engaged in work release programs; set forth minimum components of the regulation.

To Transportation (H)

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 28, 2017

SB 157: AN ACT relating to water districts. Amend KRS 74.025 to authorize the Public Service Commission to remove all governing persons of a water district for specified causes; authorize the Public Service Commission and the Division of Water to manage the water district or have the commission redraw the geographical area of the water district.

Returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)

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in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 28, 2017

HB 515: AN ACT relating to the Judicial Branch. Amend KRS 23A.050 to add the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit and the Fifty-fourth Judicial Circuit to the circuits entitled to four circuit judgeships and four divisions of circuit court; amend KRS 23A.045 to conform.

To Appropriations & Revenue (S)

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in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 28, 2017

HB 372: AN ACT relating to district health departments. Amend KRS 212.840 to target funding for district health departments.

To State & Local Government (S)

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 27, 2017

SB 214: AN ACT relating to net metering. Amend the definitions in KRS 278.465 to require that net metering customers use a single meter on their premises, that the customers use the electricity generated for all or part of their electricity requirements, and to increase the allowable size of eligible electric generating facilities from 30 kilowatts to 1000 kilowatts; amend KRS 278.466 to only apply to eligible customer-generators taking net metering service on July 15, 2017, to allow retail electric suppliers to recover all costs necessary to serve all eligible customer-generators taking service after July 15, 2017, and to provide that excess electricity credits are not transferable between meters.

Returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 27, 2017

SB 92: AN ACT relating to vehicle equipment. Amend KRS 189.040 to prohibit vehicle headlamps that emit anything other than white light; require that all headlamps meet United States Department of Transportation regulations; prohibit headlamps that appear to emit a solid color other than white; prohibit headlamp covers or film that changes the color of the light emitted; outline provisions for front, rear, side and undercarriage lighting of a vehicle.

To Transportation (H)

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