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State Legislature US Congress

All 14,689 Active 8,035 In committee 7,985 Passed 4,536 Signed 1,953 Failed 136

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 22: AN ACT relating to general principles of justification. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 503 to incorporate the "no duty to retreat" provisions elsewhere in the chapter; amend KRS 503.050, 503.055, 503.070, and 503.080 to require a reasonable belief that defensive force is necessary before it is justified; change the term "great bodily harm" to "serious physical injury" as used throughout the Penal Code; amend KRS 503.060 to require an initial aggressor to retreat before the use of force can be justified; repeal KRS 503.120.

To Judiciary (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 71: AN ACT relating to civil rights. Amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful to require a job applicant to disclose his or her criminal history prior to making an offer of employment to the applicant.

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 41: AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for currency and bullion. Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax sales or purchases of bullion or currency made on or after July 1, 2017, but before July 1, 2021.

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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 80: AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification. Amend KRS 161.095 to prohibit the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) from imposing conditions for a teacher to maintain his or her certification; amend KRS 161.1211 to prohibit the EPSB from requiring a Rank III teacher to obtain a Rank II or Rank I to maintain his or her certificate; and amend KRS 161.020 and 156.553 to conform.

To Education (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 84: AN ACT relating to school health coordinators. Amend KRS 156.502 to create the position of school health coordinaor in Kentucky schools.

To Education (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 57: AN ACT relating to medical cannabis. Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to establish a comprehensive system for medical cannabis, including provisions for medical verification of need; persons allowed to cultivate, use, and possess the drug; organizations allowed to assist in providing the drug; regulation by the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; interaction on the part of state and local governments, including law enforcement, with persons and entities coming within the purview of the Act; and establishment of required reporting and review procedures; rename the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; amend various KRS sections to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Cannabis Compassion Act.

To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 58: AN ACT relating to chief executive officers of colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop an evaluation process to be used by the local board of directors to evaluate a college's chief executive officer; amend KRS 164.600 to require the local board of directors of a community or technical college to select and evaluate the college's chief executive officer.

To Education (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 27: AN ACT relating to a board of directors of a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of directors of a community and technical college to approve biennial budget requests and to accept or reject donations of land or funds to the college; amend KRS 164.600 to change the terms of office for members of boards of directors; hold members of boards of directors harmless for proper actions and require that they be provided legal counsel upon request; require an outside agency or foundation associated with a college to notify the local board of directors of upcoming meetings, to conduct open meetings, to publicly disclose all financial documents, including donations and moneys raised and expended, and to prohibit the agency's or foundation's citizen members from having a conflict of interest or being a relative of a college employee.

To Education (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 98: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services. Amend KRS 311A.015 to attach the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; replace the first responder member of the board with an advanced emergency medical technician; preclude the citizen member of the board from having any financial interest in the practice or business regulated by the board; require one emergency medical services educator member of the board to be employed by a government operated training and education institute and one employed by a privately operated training institute; permit the Governor to remove members for cause; amend KRS 311A.020 to require all employees assigned to the board to be transferred from the KCTCS system to the KRS Chapter 18A personnel system; require new employees to be hired under provisions of KRS Chapter 18A; require the transfer of all moneys appropriated to and collected by the board to the Public Protection Cabinet; amend KRS 311A.010 to define "advanced emergency medical technician" "cabinet" and "emergency medical responder"; amend KRS 12.020 and 12.252 to conform; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to replace the term "first responder" with "emergency medical responder."

To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 29: AN ACT relating to kinship care. Amend KRS 605.120 to permanently establish a kinship care program.

To Health & Welfare (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 65: AN ACT relating to mail-in absentee ballot eligibility. Amend KRS 117.085 to allow voters who have a medical condition that prevents them from both voting in person at the polls on election day and casting an absentee ballot in person in the county clerk's office on all days absentee voting is conducted prior to election day to vote by mail-in absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.086 to conform.

To State & Local Government (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 7, 2017

SB 115: AN ACT relating to crime victims' rights. Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend various sections of the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights to change statutory definition of "victim"; require that restitution to the victim be made when possible; repeal KRS 421.540; provide for a delayed contingent effective date of November 6, 2018, upon ratification of a proposed constitutional amendment providing protection of crime victims' rights.

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