HB159 (BR475)/LM - P. Moffett
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages, and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 243.884 to increase the wholesale sales tax rate for beer, wine, and distilled spirits to 14 percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to forbid local governments from imposing a regulatory license fee on the sale of alcoholic beverages; amend KRS 242.1292 to conform; amend KRS 243.030 to create the supplemental transporter's license and establish a $100 annual fee; amend KRS 244.440 to require that every distiller, rectifier, winery, and nonresident wholesaler make its brands available to any wholesaler and not grant the distributing rights of any particular brand to only one wholesaler exclusively; amend KRS 243.170 to require that alcohol wholesalers make deliveries to retailers on a timely basis and no later than one week after the order date; amend KRS 243.180 to require that alcohol distributors make deliveries to retailers on a timely basis and no later than one week after the order date; amend KRS 243.200 to permit a quota retail package licensee or a nonquota malt beverage package licensee to transport alcoholic beverages between stores of common ownership if the licensee derives not less than 90 percent of his or her cash receipts from the sale of alcohol and pays the annual license fee; amend KRS 244.040 to allow a brewer or distributor to extend credit on malt beverages sold to retailers for up to 30 days; amend KRS 243.110, 243.157, and 243.360 to make conforming changes; repeal KRS 243.075 and 243.886; APPROPRIATION.
Jan 08, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 10, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
HB160 (BR304) - J. York, M. Cantrell, A. Gentry, J. Jenkins, S. Westrom
0AN ACT relating to call centers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require an employer intending to relocate a call center from Kentucky to a foreign country to notify the secretary of the Labor Cabinet at least 120 days prior to such relocation; require the secretary to compile a list of employers that have relocated a call center to a foreign country; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation; provide short title.
Jan 08, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 10, 2018 - to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB161 (BR965)/FN - J. DeCesare
AN ACT relating to the protection of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
Amend KRS 16.065 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide personal protection to any recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor at any public event or ceremony if the individual receives an official invitation to attend.
HB161 - AMENDMENTS
HCS1 - Retain original provisions; restrict personal protection to Kentucky residents who are recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; allow for personal protection for a maximum of 12 events per year within Kentucky if the recipient receives an official written invitation.
SCS1 - Retain original provisions and delete "Congressional" from Medal of Honor name.
SCA1(A. Robinson) - Make title amendment.
Jan 09, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 11, 2018 - to State Government (H)
Feb 20, 2018 - posted in committee
Feb 22, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
Feb 23, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Feb 27, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute
Mar 01, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 05, 2018 - to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Mar 15, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute & committee amendment (1-title)
Mar 16, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
HB162 (BR892)/FN/LM - J. DeCesare, A. Gentry, J. Greer, J. Sims Jr, J. Tipton
AN ACT relating to tax-exempt property of purely public charities and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 132.195 to exempt leasehold interests in property owned by a purely public charity when the property and income is used to further the purely public charity's mission; EMERGENCY.
HB162 - AMENDMENTS
SCS1/LM - Amend KRS 132.195 to exempt leasehold interests in property owned by a purely public charity when the property and income is used to further the purely public charity's mission and the owners of any interest do not have a right or claim to more than $5,000 of the consideration paid to obtain the property interest or to any income derived by the purely public charity or its subsidiaries.
SCA1(D. Thayer) - Make title amendment.
SFA1(M. Wilson) - Remove provision that allows the bill to apply retroactively; remove the emergency clause; add that the provisions of the bill shall apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2019; make technical change.
SFA2(M. Wilson) - Make title amendment.
Jan 09, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 11, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Jan 24, 2018 - posted in committee
Jan 30, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Jan 31, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 1, 2018
Feb 01, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 87-0
Feb 02, 2018 - received in Senate
Feb 05, 2018 - to State & Local Government (S)
Mar 20, 2018 - taken from State & Local Government (S); 1st reading; returned to State & Local Government (S)
Mar 21, 2018 - reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute & committee amendment (1-title)
Mar 22, 2018 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
HB163 (BR997) - S. Wells, K. Imes, C. Morgan
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Representatives from serving more than eight consecutive terms in office, not including partial terms, and to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, including a partial term of three years or more, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service, if reelected, in the house from which they were term-limited after two years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Jan 09, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 11, 2018 - to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
HB164 (BR137) - J. DeCesare, M. Meredith
AN ACT relating to charitable gaming.
Amend KRS 238.505 and 238.535 to include 501(c)(7) organizations created for recreational purposes in the types of organizations that may conduct charitable gaming.
HB164 - AMENDMENTS
HCS1 - Delete original provisions; amend KRS 238.5354 to allow organizations that do not qualify under tax exempt requirements for charitable organizations to hold limited raffles; allow 501(c)(7) organizations to hold a special event raffle license to conduct up to 12 raffles per year with gross receipts of no more than $500,000; require all net receipts resulting from the raffle to be donated to a tax exempt charitable organization licensed by the department; establish information requirements to be submitted with application.
Jan 09, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 11, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
Jan 19, 2018 - posted in committee
Feb 28, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
Mar 01, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 07, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 8, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 59-36 with Committee Substitute
Mar 14, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 15, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
Mar 20, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
Mar 21, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 22, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 22, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 34-3; received in House; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
Mar 27, 2018 - enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; delivered to Governor
HB165 (BR949)/FN - R. Nelson
AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION.
Jan 09, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 11, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB166 (BR184)/CI/LM - J. Sims Jr, G. Brown Jr, T. Burch, M. Cantrell, J. Donohue, K. Flood, A. Gentry, J. Gooch Jr., D. Graham, J. Greer, C. Harris, A. Hatton, T. Herald, J. Jenkins, M. Marzian, J. Miller, C. Morgan, R. Nelson, J. Nemes, R. Palumbo, R. Rand, D. Schamore, A. Scott, S. Wells, S. Westrom
AN ACT relating to medical cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish protections for cardholders; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; clarify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; clarify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; require establishment of a Cannabis Enforcement Program by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to enforce the department's duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, single-serving limits for THC content, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action with the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish excise taxes of 10% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling directly to a compassion center; establish excise taxes of 5% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling to a distributor; establish excise taxes of 5% for a distributor selling to a compassion center; direct that 80% of revenues go to the administration of the medical cannabis trust fund for the operation of the Cannabis Enforcement Program; direct that 20% of revenues go to the local medical cannabis trust fund for enforcement of medical cannabis laws, medical cannabis licensing, hiring of drug recognition experts, local evidence-based drug rehabilitation projects, or educational activities within local jails; establish the medical cannabis trust fund and the local cannabis trust fund; APPROPRIATION.
Jan 10, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 16, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
Feb 08, 2018 - posted in committee
Mar 20, 2018 - discharge petition filed
HB167 (BR400) - M. Dossett, L. Bechler, G. Brown Jr, K. King
AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.
Amend KRS 405.075 to establish a definition and allow the use of a "newborn safety device" related to the anonymous surrendering of a newborn infant in the Commonwealth.
HB167 - AMENDMENTS
HCS1 - Delete original provisions; amend KRS 405.075 to establish that a staffed police station, fire station, hospital, or participating place of worship may post a sign easily seen by the public that identifies itself as a safe and legal location to surrender a newborn infant less than 30 days old.
SCS1 - Retain original provisions; additionally amend KRS 405.075 to establish that an emergency medical facility may post a sign easily seen by the public that identifies itself as a safe and legal location to surrender a newborn infant less than 30 days old; amend KRS 211.680 to establish that the prevention of maternal fatalities is a priority of the General Assembly; amend KRS 211.684 to define a "local child and maternal fatality response team" and "maternal fatality" and provide that the currently established child fatality review team will now also review maternal fatalities; and amend KRS 21.686 to provide that local child and maternal fatality response teams may be established in Kentucky counties and provide what the teams will do.
SCA1(J. Adams) - Make title amendment.
Jan 10, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 16, 2018 - to Health and Family Services (H)
Jan 23, 2018 - posted in committee
Jan 25, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
Jan 26, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, January 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 89-0 with Committee Substitute
Jan 30, 2018 - received in Senate
Jan 31, 2018 - to Health & Welfare (S)
Mar 21, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute & committee amendment (1-title)
Mar 22, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 27, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) committee amendment (1-title); received in House; to Rules (H)
HB168 (BR343) - J. Hoover, L. Belcher
AN ACT relating to railroad crossings.
Amend KRS 189.550 to require the operators of all buses and motor vehicles used for transporting children to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment; amend KRS 189.560 to require a motor vehicle operator to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment; amend KRS 189.565 to require operators of motor vehicles used to transport inflammable liquids to stop the vehicle at railroad crossings and look for approaching on-track equipment.
HB168 - AMENDMENTS
SFA1(D. Thayer) - Make title amendment.
SFA2(D. Thayer) - Delete provisions of the bill; amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure of the retirement benefit information for individuals who are receiving combined annualized retirement benefits from the state-administered retirement systems exceeding $100,000.
Jan 10, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 16, 2018 - to Transportation (H)
Jan 23, 2018 - posted in committee
Feb 06, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
Feb 07, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Feb 08, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, February 9, 2018
Feb 09, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 87-0
Feb 12, 2018 - received in Senate
Feb 16, 2018 - to Transportation (S)
Mar 07, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
Mar 08, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 12, 2018 - floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed
Mar 20, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 20, 2018; floor amendments (1-title) and (2) withdrawn; 3rd reading, passed 38-0
Mar 21, 2018 - received in House; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House; enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; delivered to Governor
HB169 (BR227)/CI/FN/LM - R. Benvenuti III, J. Blanton, K. King, S. Lee, J. Miller, R. Mills, C. Morgan
AN ACT relating to gang violence prevention and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 506 to define "criminal gang" and "pattern of criminal gang activity"; repeal and reenact KRS 506.140 to enumerate what constitutes criminal gang recruitment in the first, second, and third degree; amend KRS 506.120 to define "criminal gang syndicate" and associated penalties for defendants convicted of certain offenses committed while acting as a criminal gang syndicate; amend KRS 506.150 to revise evidence that is corroborative of the existence of a gang or gang membership; create new sections of KRS Chapter 506 to require that anyone who is found to be a member of a criminal gang at the time of commission of a felony, and who is subsequently convicted of a felony that puts the public at risk, shall be sentenced to a penalty that is one class higher than the penalty provision pertaining to the felony offense he or she was convicted of, unless the person is determined to be a persistent felony offender; establish a cause of action for a person harmed by a criminal gang or criminal gang member; create a new section of KRS Chapter 506 to state that property used by a gang or gang member in the commission of the crime shall be forfeited and disposed of in accordance with KRS 218A.405 to 218A.460; provide that this Act shall be known as the Gang Violence Prevention Act; encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to create a statewide gang violence prevention database; EMERGENCY.
HB169 - AMENDMENTS
HCS1/CI/LM - Amend Section 1 to include "reliable" informant as a means of determining whether someone is a member of a criminal gang, include language related to promoting and furthering criminal activity when determining whether someone is a criminal gang member through social media posts and photos, and make changes to conform; EMERGENCY
HFA1/P(A. Scott) - Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6, relating to legislation considered by the General Assembly, to require racial impact statements when indicated.
HFA2(A. Scott) - Amend to allow restorative justice practices.
HFA3(J. Nemes) - Amend Section 1 to delete requirement that three or more persons are required to constitute a criminal gang and require five or more persons and delete provision allowing a felony offense and at least one misdemeanor offense to constitute a pattern of criminal gang activity; amend KRS 506.140 to delete provision making criminal gang recruitment in the first degree a Class B felony for a second or subsequent offense, delete requirement making criminal gang requirement in the second degree a Class C felony for the second or subsequent offense, and delete provision making criminal gang recruitment in the third degree a Class D felony for the second or subsequent offense; amend KRS 506.120 to revise requirements related to determining whether defendants were acting as a criminal syndicate, delete language related to “criminal gang syndicate, expand list of crimes that a syndicate might engage in to include acting to promote or engage in intimidation of a participant in a legal process, tampering with physical evidence, and sex and child-related criminal offenses; amend Section 5 to delete harassing communications as one of the crimes eligible under section 5 for increased mandatory prison term and include requirement that a prosecutor must agree to a mandatory imprisonment term if defendant is determined to have a been a gang member at the time of conviction; provide that at the discretion of the prosecutor, a defendant can penalized one class more severely than provided in the penalty provision pertaining to the underlying felony offense; delete requirement that punitive and compensatory must be awarded in a civil action by a person harmed by a defendant acting in furtherance of a gang; provide that the defendant must have acted in furtherance of the gang in order for property to be eligible for forfeiture; EMERGENCY.
SCS1/CI/LM - Amend KRS 506.150 by including language that requires two or more of certain enumerated evidence to establish the existence of a criminal gang; amend section 5 to provide that the section does not apply to juvenile offenders unless he or she was transferred to Circuit Court as a youthful offender under KRS 640.010 and has on at least one (1) prior separate occasion been adjudicated a public offender for a felony offense; amend Section 6 to provide that this section does not apply to juvenile offenders unless he or she was transferred to Circuit Court as a youthful offender under KRS 640.010 and has on at least one (1) prior separate occasion been adjudicated a public offender for a felony offense or he or she is a violent offender; and amend Section 7 to provide that any award of nominal damages to the plaintiff must also support an award of attorney's fees and costs; EMERGENCY.
SFA1(G. Neal) - Add new sections of KRS Chapter 506 making legislative findings, and requiring racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislaion and administrative regualtions.
Jan 10, 2018 - introduced in House
Jan 16, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
Jan 22, 2018 - posted in committee
Feb 07, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Feb 08, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Mar 08, 2018 - posted in committee
Mar 13, 2018 - reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute; floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
Mar 14, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 15, 2018; floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute
Mar 15, 2018 - 3rd reading; floor amendments (2) and (3) defeated; passed 71-17 with Committee Substitute (1)
Mar 16, 2018 - received in Senate
Mar 19, 2018 - to Judiciary (S)
Mar 20, 2018 - taken from Judiciary (S); 1st reading; returned to Judiciary (S)
Mar 21, 2018 - taken from Judiciary (S); 2nd reading; returned to Judiciary (S)
Mar 27, 2018 - reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1); floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
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