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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)
in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 1, 2017

HB 123: AN ACT relating to children in custody of the state. Amend KRS 620.010 to provide that any child who is removed from his or her parents shall have access to a permanent home as quickly as possible; create new section of KRS Chapter 620 to set out duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services related to children who have been committed to the care of the state for a period of 15 months due to abuse, neglect, or dependency; amend KRS 625.090 to modify grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights.

Floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 1, 2017

HB 414: AN ACT relating to fantasy contests and making an appropriation therefor. Establish KRS Chapter 239 relating to fantasy sports contests and create new sections thereof to include definitions; require fantasy contest operators to be registered by the Public Protection Cabinet; establish application requirements; establish initial and annual registration fees; mandate fantasy contest operators to implement commercially reasonable procedures for fantasy contests; require the Public Protection Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations regulating the operation of fantasy contests; APPROPRIATION.

3rd reading, defeated 37-36 with Committee Substitute (1)
in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 1, 2017

HB 258: AN ACT relating to elections. Amend KRS 117.075 to extend the allotted time during which a qualified voter with disabilities can apply for a mail-in absentee ballot from seven to twelve days; allow qualified voters with disabilities the means to vote using a mail-in absentee ballot or an in-person absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.085 to allow a legal guardian to request a mail-in absentee ballot application for a voter under his or her guardianship; extend the county clerk deadline for receipt of a mail-in absentee ballot from seven to twelve days; allow qualified voters with disabilities to vote using an in-person absentee ballot; extend the time from which Kentucky uniformed-service voters can request to vote by in-person absentee ballot from seven to twelve days; amend KRS 117.227 to include acceptable forms of identification, and certain photo forms of identification; amend KRS 117.077 to allow a legal guardian the ability to request and deliver a mail-in absentee ballot to a voter who has a medical emergency when the voter is under his or her guardianship.

Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 2, 2017
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 28, 2017

HB 427: AN ACT relating to divorce. Amend KRS 403.044 to prohibit hearing evidence in a divorce action involving minor children before 180 days have passed since the filing of the petition; amend KRS 403.170 to require the court in a divorce to hold a hearing with the parties present to determine whether the marriage is irretrievably broken and allow the court to require a divorce assessment performed by a qualified mental health professional.

Posted in committee
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)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 27, 2017

HB 494: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. Amend KRS 17.500 to revise the definition of "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor," "registrant information," and "residence"; amend KRS 17.510 to require registrants to provide palm prints; require persons convicted or required to register in other jurisdictions to register within three working days of relocation; require registrants to inform the appropriate local probation and parole office of travel outside the country; require registrants who move to a new county to register with the appropriate local probation and parole office within three working days; require any changes to a registrant's electronic mail address or any other Internet communication name identity to register the change or new identity within three working days; amend 17.520 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a sex offender registrant that is 18 years of age or older from having the same residence as a minor; provide an exception if the registrant is the spouse, parent, grandparent, stepparent, sibling, stepsibling, or guardian unless the registrant's parental rights have or are being terminated, the registrant was convicted of any sex crime or criminal offense against the victim who is a minor in which the child of the registrant was the victim, or the registrant has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor; make any registrant who violates the prohibition of living with a minor guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class D felony for the second and each subsequent offense; amend KRS 17.546 to revise the definition of "social networking Web site"; amend KRS 17.580 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to display a registrant's palm prints on their Web site.

Posted in committee
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 27, 2017

HB 332: AN ACT relating to administrative regulations. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to delay the effective date of ordinary administrative regulations with a major economic impact until the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define "major economic impact" as an overall annual economic impact from an administrative regulation of $500,000 or more on state and local government and regulated entities as determined by the promulgating administrative body; amend KRS 13A.250 to require the fiscal note to include a cost analysis of the administrative regulation's effect on regulated entities and a determination by the promulgating administrative body as to the overall economic impact of the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.330 and 13A.331 to conform; specify short title of the Act as the Kentucky Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act.

Floor amendment (1) filed
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