HB535 (BR1837) - K. Moser
Mar 22-WITHDRAWN
HB536 (BR238)/AA/LM - J. Sims Jr, D. Schamore
AN ACT relating to sports wagering and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to require the lottery corporation to institute a sports wagering system; amend KRS 154A.010 to define "collegiate sports contest," "net sports wagering receipts," "professional sports contest," and "sports wagering"; amend KRS 154A.030 to prohibit owners of professional sports teams from serving on the board; amend KRS 154A.050 and 154A.060 to include sports wagering; amend 154A.063 to allow the corporation to accept wagers on collegiate and professional sports contests, but to prohibit sports wagers on horse racing; amend KRS 154A.070 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.090 to include sports wagering retailers; amend KRS 154A.110 to prohibit sales of sports wagers to persons under 18 years of age, provide for the allocation of unclaimed sports wager prize money, and restrict owners, coaches, players, and others involved in a sporting contest from placing sports wagers; create new sections of KRS Chapter 154A to permit sports wagering at lottery retailers, horse racing tracks, and simulcast facilities; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations needed to establish and oversee sports wagering and prohibit participants in sporting events from placing wagers on games in which they are participating; create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to establish the sports wagering distribution trust fund and limit uses of the fund to administrative costs and pension system funding; amend KRS 154A.120 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.130 to exempt sports wagering receipts and specify that sports wagering receipts shall be deposited in the sports wagering distribution trust fund; amend KRS 154A.400 and 154A.410 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.420 to include sports wagering and allow the corporation to require a retailer to establish a separate sports wagering electronic funds transfer account, where available; amend KRS 154A.430 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.440 to require retailers to accept sports wagers only at the location listed on their contract; amend KRS 154A.600 and 154A.650 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 154A.990 to establish penalties for selling a sports wager to anyone under 18 years of age, to establish the crime of tampering with the outcome of a sporting event, and prohibit participants from wagering on a sporting event and establish penalties; EFFECTIVE UPON CONTINGENCY: Act takes effect only if the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is repealed by Congress or is rendered void by the United States Supreme Court.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
HB537 (BR1592) - DJ Johnson
AN ACT relating to legislative communications.
Amend KRS 7.105 to require the Legislative Research Commission to email electronic versions of the "final executive action" issue of the Legislative Record and the interim Legislative Record instead of mailing hard copies; allow the Commission to mail hard copies upon written request.
HB537 - AMENDMENTS
HFA1(S. Wells) - Retain original provisions; require the Legislative Research Commission to send an electronic copy of the Legislative Record to the library of each of the public high schools in each county.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to State Government (H)
Mar 06, 2018 - posted in committee
Mar 08, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar; floor amendment (1) filed
Mar 09, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 13, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Mar 14, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 87-0 with floor amendment (1)
Mar 15, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 16, 2018 - to State & Local Government (S)
HB538 (BR1383)/FN - R. Palumbo, J. Carney, L. Belcher
AN ACT relating to mental health screenings for students.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require a mental health screening for students in conjunction with immunizations required for elementary, middle, and high school.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Education (H)
HB539 (BR908)/AA/FN - S. Riley, T. Couch, R. Huff, J. York
AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to establish risk control mechanisms that shall be implemented by the board of trustees for the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) if funding for retirement benefits applying to members hired on or after July 1, 2018, falls below 95%; amend KRS 161.155 to limit the amount of unused sick leave that may be used to calculate retirement benefits to the number of days accrued as of June 30, 2018; amend KRS 161.540 to increase the employee contribution rate for pensions to 10% for new members of TRS; amend KRS 161.550 to limit state appropriations to fund benefits for new TRS members to 6% of payroll, but require the General Assembly to pay the full actuarially required contribution rate (ARC) for the TRS for all fiscal years occurring on or after July 1, 2018; amend KRS 161.600 to require new TRS members participating on or after July 1, 2018, to attain an age and years of service that total at least 85 to qualify for unreduced retirement benefits or that total no less than 70 to qualify for reduced retirement benefits; make technical and conforming amendments to KRS 161.220, 161.420, 161.600, 161.620, and 161.623; create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to provide that the administration of the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) shall be transferred from the Kentucky Retirement System (KRS) board of trustees to the CERS board of trustees established on July 1, 2018; allow the new CERS board to contract with KRS for administration of benefits, investments, or other services as needed for a period not to exceed four years; create new sections of KRS 78.510 to 78.852, including new provisions to permit nonhazardous members who began participating on or after January 1, 2014, to make a one-time irrevocable election to transfer from the hybrid cash balance plan into the defined benefit tier for members who began participating on or after July 1, 2008, but limit establish risk controls mechanisms for this tier; amend KRS 78.510, 78.530, 78.535, 78.540, 78.610, 78.615, 78.616, 78.625, 78.630, 78.640, 78.650, 78.652, 78,790, 78.852, and 78.550 to establish separate statutory provisions governing administration, benefits, and investments of the County Employees Retirement System; establish a 9-member CERS board composed of 3 elected members, and 6 individuals appointed by the Kentucky League of Cities, the Kentucky Association of Counties, or the Kentucky School Boards Association who must have 10 years of "investment experience" or "retirement experience" as defined by the bill; specify investment, reporting, and transparency requirements; amend KRS 6.350, 7A.255, 16.505, 16.555, 16.576, 16.577, 16.583, 16.582, 18A.205, 61.510, 61.522, 61.535, 61.540, 61.545, 61.550, 61.552, 61.5525, 61.555, 61.559, 61.565, 61.590, 61.592, 61.595, 61.597, 61.598, 61.600, 61.607, 61.621, 61.623, 61.625, 61.630, 61.637, 61.650, 61.652, 61.660, 61.665, 61.670, 61.675, 61.680, 61.690, 61.691, 61.701, 61.702, 61.705, 70.292, 70.293, 95.022, 95.290, 161.155, and 61.675 to conform; amend KRS 61.645 to remove CERS elected and appointed representation on the KRS board; amend KRS 7A.250 to place CERS under the jurisdiction of the Public Pension Oversight Board; amend KRS 18A.225 to allow CERS retirees to participate in the Kentucky Employees Health Plan; repeal KRS 78.533, 78.534, 78.532, 78.542, 78.545, and 212.434; provide that decisions made by the KRS board on behalf of CERS shall stand and shall not be reversed except as provided by KRS 78.510 to 78.852; provide that the three elected CERS trustees serving on the KRS board prior to July 1, 2017, shall serve as the elected trustees on the new CERS board; provide that no provision of this Act shall increase or decrease benefits to members or retired members of KRS or CERS; EMERGENCY, effective July 1, 2018.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB540 (BR1630)/FN - P. Pratt
AN ACT relating to a new tax credit.
Establish a new subchapter under KRS Chapter 154 and create new sections thereof to allow the earn and learn tax credit in an amount up to 25% of the costs incurred by an approved company for tuition or other educational expenses paid on behalf of a qualified employee, not to exceed $1,500 and up to 50% of those costs incurred for a qualified employee in recovery, not to exceed $2,000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow the tax credit against the income taxes and the limited liability entity tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, 2023; amend various sections to require reporting of data to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB541 (BR1108)/FN - P. Pratt
AN ACT relating to the highly skilled employee tax credit.
Establish Subchapter 13 of KRS Chapter 154 and create new sections thereof to define terms and create a tax credit for residents of the Commonwealth that are employed in high-skill, high-demand industry sector positions in an amount not to exceed $1,500 for each eligible position and a total of $3 million in each fiscal year; create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to allow a nonrefundable, nontransferable tax credit against the individual income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2022, and to require reporting by the department; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend various sections to conform to the reporting requirements.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB542 (BR1834)/FN/LM - T. Couch, C. Fugate, D. Bentley, J. Blanton, L. Brown, M. Castlen, J. Gooch Jr., D. Hale, T. Herald
AN ACT relating to coal severance revenues.
Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 42 to distribute 100 percent of coal severance revenues among the coal-producing counties on the basis of the tax collected on coal severed or processed in each respective county; amend KRS 143.090, 164.7890, and 164.7891 to conform; repeal KRS 42.490.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB543 (BR1668) - J. Donohue
AN ACT relating to the licensing of private investigators.
Amend KRS 329A.070 to delete an individual conducting an investigation on their own behalf from the list of those exempted from licensure requirements; add an employee of a private business conducting an internal investigation to the list; require an employee of a private investigator or a private investigating firm to be registered with the board; delete 240 hours per year maximum of supervised work.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
HB544 (BR1665)/CI/LM - J. Jenkins, M. Marzian, G. Brown Jr, J. Donohue, K. Flood
AN ACT relating to extreme risk protective orders.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protective orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protective order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
HB545 (BR422) - J. DuPlessis
Feb 28-WITHDRAWN
HB546 (BR448) - K. Sinnette
AN ACT relating to utility franchises.
Amend KRS 96.010 to allow cities to deny utility franchisees the ability to recover from ratepayers the franchise fee by adding a fee or surcharge to the bill.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
HB547 (BR1486)/AA - K. Sinnette
AN ACT relating to employer contributions rates for employers participating in the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 61.565 to set the employer contribution rates for the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System for the 2018-2020 biennium at the levels payable in fiscal year 2017-2018; require the board of trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems to amend employer rates payable on or after July 1, 2018, accordingly; EMERGENCY.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to State Government (H)
HB548 (BR1572) - J. Kay
AN ACT relating to election districts.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Legislative Advisory Reapportionment and Redistricting Commission; require each of the eleven members to be appointed with at least one member appointed from each of Kentucky's congressional districts; prior to appointment, members must meet certain conditions; members are to be appointed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, minority leadership in the House, minority leadership in the Senate, and the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court or his or her designee; set terms of office at four years; require appointments to be made by July 1, 2020, and thereafter for each subsequent decennial year; establish powers and duties of the commission; require the commission to develop proposals for the reapportionment and redistricting of state legislative districts, congressional districts, and, when called upon to do so, Supreme Court districts; require the commission to submit its proposals to the Legislative Research Commission, which shall refer the proposals to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; allow the General Assembly to enact or reject the proposals, but not alter or amend them; provide that if the General Assembly does not enact the proposals, the proposals are to return to the commission with recommendations; a new set of proposals must be submitted to the General Assembly for consideration; the commission must submit proposals to the General Assembly at least three times before the General Assembly is able to enact its own reapportionment and redistricting legislation without the commission.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to State Government (H)
HB549 (BR1774) - M. Cantrell, D. St. Onge
AN ACT relating to preserving families that include a parent who is blind.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 relating to parents or prospective parents with blindness; define terms; establish rights of parents or prospective parents with blindness.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
HB550 (BR1944)/LM - M. Cantrell
AN ACT relating to the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 383.500 to apply the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act on a statewide basis; repeal, reenact, and amend the various sections of KRS 383.500 to 383.715 constituting that Act without substantive change.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
HB551 (BR871) - J. Wayne, R. Adkins, J. Richards
AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties of the trustees and investment managers for the state-administered retirement systems.
Amend KRS 21.540, 61.650, and 161.430 to require the state-administered retirement systems to follow the state Model Procurement Code when contracting for investment management services; amend KRS 61.645 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 161.250 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Teachers' Retirement System; amend KRS 61.990 and 161.990 to provide that a knowing violation of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems and the Teachers' Retirement System shall be a Class D felony.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to State Government (H)
HB552 (BR289) - J. DeCesare
AN ACT relating to adult education.
Repeal various sections of KRS Chapter 164, reenact them as the sections of KRS Chapter 151B, and amend to move the Kentucky Adult Education Program and the Foundation for Adult Education from the Council on Postsecondary Education to the Department of Workforce Investment in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; rename the Kentucky Adult Education Program as the Office of Adult Education; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; amend KRS 18A.115 to exempt transferred employees from classified service; amend KRS 161.220 to allow transferred employees currently participating in KTRS to continue in KTRS.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
Mar 05, 2018 - posted in committee
HB553 (BR166) - J. DeCesare
Mar 08-WITHDRAWN
HB554 (BR1853) - J. Gooch Jr., J. Miller, D. St. Onge
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency.
Establish a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that, at each school without a school resource or security officer, the local board shall implement an emergency response team; establish requirements for members of an emergency response team; require a local board of education to adopt policies and procedures for an emergency response team; provide some civil liability protections to the local board and emergency response team members; limit applicability of the section; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish a process for certifying instructors in providing school safety training; establish minimum requirements of the process; require the department to develop curriculum and requirements for school safety certification trainings, which may be provided by certified trainers; require completion of a psychological suitability screening for certification applicants; allow certifications in school safety to be valid for one year; establish certification renewal requirements; allow the department to establish a fee for certifications; allow the department to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 527.070 to include members of a school's emergency response team among these permitted to carry firearms on school grounds pursuant to the written policies and authorization of the local board of education; declare an EMERGENCY.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)
Mar 15, 2018 - posted in committee
HB555 (BR1278) - J. Petrie, J. DeCesare
AN ACT relating to the licensure of surgical assistants.
Amend KRS 311.878 to update certifying bodies; create a new section of KRS 311.864 to 311.890 to provide for temporary certification and the cancellation of temporary certification; repeal KRS 311.882.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
Mar 09, 2018 - posted in committee
Mar 14, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Mar 15, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 16, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 19, 2018
Mar 19, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 84-2
Mar 20, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 21, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
HB556 (BR1467)/FN - J. Petrie
AN ACT relating to property valuation administrators' offices and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 132.020 to increase state real property tax rate by 2.6 cents per $100 of assessed valuation; amend KRS 132.590 to require a special purpose governmental entity to pay to the PVA for use of the property assessment and create the PVA compensation fund; amend KRS 132.200 to include the receipts from unmined coal in the special purpose governmental entity fee; amend KRS 132.645 to conform; repeal KRS 132.635; APPROPRIATION.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB557 (BR1106)/FN - J. Petrie
AN ACT relating to economic development.
Amend KRS 56.440 to define "headquarters," "nonretail service and technology project," and "nonretail service and technology entity"; amend KRS 56.510, relating to state lands and buildings to expand eligible projects from industrial projects to include headquarters and nonretail service and technology projects; include eligibility requirements to create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define how skills training credits may be applied to income tax obligations; amend KRS 144.0205 to conform; amend KRS 148.546 and 148.8591 to allow online reporting from Tourism, Arts and Heritage to the LRC in lieu of a physical report; amend KRS 154.10-050 to remove requirement that cabinet secretary create and submit an annual strategic plan for economic development; create a new section of KRS 154.12-2084 to 154.12-2089 to sunset current investment credits; amend KRS 154.12-100 to change reporting requirements and include posting of annual report required by KRS 154.12-2035; amend KRS 154.12-204 to include new definitions relating to the skills training investment credit; amend KRS 154.12-205 to substitute the phrase "qualified company" for "business and industry"; amend KRS 154.12-206 to substitute the phrase "approved companies" for "business and industry"; amend KRS 154.12-207 to provide additional details about skills training investment and grant-in-aid credit qualifications; amend KRS 154.12-208 to allow the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation to submit annual report on the cabinet's Web page instead of via paper to LRC; amend KRS 154.12-278 to allow reporting obligations of Kentucky Innovation Act on the cabinet Web page instead of paper copy to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.12-310 to remove satellite offices and specify the number of affiliate centers; amend KRS 154.12-2035 to allow posting of annual report to the cabinet's Web page instead of a physical copy to the Governor and LRC; rename the small business investment credit as the Kentucky small business tax credit; amend KRS 154.20-150 to allow annual reporting by Web page instead of by physical copy to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.20-170 to remove reference to targeted industrial sector; amend KRS 154.20-230 to change definition of "qualified activity"; amend KRS 154.20-234 to change elements of qualified investment and authorize promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 154.20-238 to increase allowable time for investment; amend KRS 154.27-050 to allow posting of annual report to the cabinet Web site instead of submitting it to the Governor and LRC; amend KRS 154.30-010 to change investment criteria and refine definitions; create a new section of Subchapter 27 of KRS Chapter 154 to sunset incentives allowed by KRS 154.27-010 to KRS 154.27-100; amend KRS 154.30-070 to alter requirements of tax incentive agreement; amend KRS 154.30-080 to allow cancellation of tax incentive agreements and add definitions; amend KRS 154.31-030 to allow annual reporting by post to the cabinet Web page; amend KRS 154.32-010 to include new definitions; amend KRS 154.32-020 to expand the list of companies eligible for incentives; amend KRS 154.60-010 and KRS 154.60-020 to replace term "Division of Small Business" with "Office of Entrepreneurship"; amend KRS 154.60-020 to extend time period for credit-related activity; repeal KRS 141.430 relating to income tax credit calculations; repeal KRS 154.10-100 relating to information transfer network; repeal KRS 154.10-120 relating to preparation of the strategic plan for economic development; repeal KRS 154.10-125 relating to content of the strategic economic development plan; repeal KRS 154.10-140 relating to performance benchmarks; repeal KRS 154.30-052 relating to signature project loan program requirements; repeal KRS 154.48-010 containing definitions for KRS 154.48-010 to 154.48-035; repeal KRS 154.48-015 expressing the findings of the General Assembly; repeal KRS154.48-020 relating to administrative regulations and open meetings; repeal KRS 154.48-025 to 154.48-030, and 154.48.035 establishing the Kentucky Environmental Stewardship Act; repeal KRS 224.01-020 relating to the funding for cleaning agricultural warehousing sites.
Feb 27, 2018 - introduced in House
Mar 01, 2018 - to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
Mar 05, 2018 - posted in committee
Mar 08, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Mar 09, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 13, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 58-38
Mar 21, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 22, 2018 - to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
Mar 27, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
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