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D Kentucky Senate · District 37

Sen. David Yates

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Total votes
2,000
all sessions
Attendance
97%
54 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
98%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
257
bills & resolutions
Higher than 89% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
257 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

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257
Primary
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Primary SB 40
In committee · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools and making an appropriation therefor.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.

In committee Jan 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 268
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to financial support of a child or dependent after driving under the influence.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 allowing restitution in the form of child support to be ordered in violations of KRS 189A.010 if the violation caused the death of a parent or guardian of a minor child or resulted in a finding by the court that a parent or guardian of a minor child is disabled or totally and permanently disabled; provide that the Act may be cited as Melanie's Law.

Signed into law Apr 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 47
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to conform; amend KRS 12.020, 12.252, 15.300, 15.380, 15.398, 15.420, 15A.340, 61.592, 62.160, 131.1815, 211.285, 241.010, 241.015, 241.030, 243.025, 243.0307, 243.038, 243.090, 243.360, 438.310, 438.311, 438.313, 438.315, 438.317, 438.320, 438.325, 438.330, 438.337, and 438.340 to change the name of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; some sections EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024.

Signed into law Mar 31, 2023 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 229
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to child abuse.

Amend KRS 620.030 to remove the requirement that a supervisor make an additional report to the proper authorities regarding a report made to them of suspected abuse; require an oral report of child abuse and notification of a supervisor; add the requirement that a supervisor cooperate with the investigation of a report; amend KRS 620.040 to require an agency that is the reporting source to notify other involved agencies; amend KRS 620.072 to allow the cabinet to choose announced or unannounced visits following alleged child abuse reports.

Signed into law Mar 27, 2023 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 30
Signed into law · Kentucky Senate · Lead sponsor
AN ACT relating to the termination of automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to define "automatic renewal," "automatic renewal offer terms," "clear and conspicuous," "consumer," and "continuous service,"; require businesses to present automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms clearly and conspicuously to consumers before purchase; require businesses to obtain the consumer's consent before charging the consumer; require businesses to provide an acknowledgment that includes the terms, the cancellation policy, and information regarding how to cancel in a manner that can be retained by the consumer; require businesses to provide consumers with an easy-to-use mechanism for cancellation; require businesses to provide users who purchase in one medium the opportunity to terminate in the same medium, including online termination; require businesses to provide a notice regarding material term changes prior to implementation; exempt certain businesses and services; allow the Attorney General to bring an action for injunctive and monetary relief; and exempt contracts entered into prior to the effective date; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.

Signed into law Mar 23, 2023 0 co-sponsors
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