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SB203 - AN ACT relating to early childhood education.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Danny Carroll, Julie Adams, Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 11 months ago

4 Co-Sponsors

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the Division of Regulated Early Childhood Education within the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish the Division of Early Childhood Education within the Department for Community Based Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 164.787 to change the definition of "eligible program of study"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create definitions, establish the innovations in early childhood education delivery fund, the foundations for early learning fund, the family early childhood educator provider fund, and the early childhood education provider start up fund; establish the requirements and operations of the funds for the purpose of offering grants to applicants for the purpose of increasing the availability of early childhood education services in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish eligibility requirements of the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8983 and 12.020 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Horizons Act.

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Introduced

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SB284 - AN ACT relating to the acquisition and ownership of real property by a foreign principal.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
George Maxwell Wise, Robert M. Mills, Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 11 months ago

3 Co-Sponsors

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; prohibit a foreign principal from acquiring or owning agricultural land; require a foreign principal that owns or acquires agricultural land before the effective date of this Act to register the ownership with the Department of Agriculture; require a purchaser of agricultural land to file an affidavit with the Department of Agriculture attesting that the purchaser is not a foreign principal; authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate regulations; prohibit a foreign principal from acquiring or owning real property on or within 10 miles of a military installation; require a foreign principal that owns or acquires real property on or within 10 miles of a military installation before the effective date of this Act, or that owns real property as authorized to register the ownership with the Cabinet for Economic Development; require a purchaser of real property located on or within 10 miles of a military installation to file an affidavit with the Cabinet for Economic Development attesting that the purchaser is not a foreign principal; authorize the Cabinet for Economic Development to promulgate regulations; authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Commission to establish regulations related to the affidavits required under this Act; establish procedures for the forfeiture of real property owned or acquired in violation of this Act; establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 381.320 to conform.

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Introduced

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SB319 - AN ACT relating to victims of crime.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Denise Harper Angel, Whitney H. Westerfield, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 9 months ago

4 Co-Sponsors

Amends KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amends KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amends KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amends KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims to file claims; amends KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amends KRS 49.350 to allow a claim in default to be revived; amends KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amends KRS 49.370 to raise award limits and expand the types of claims eligible for payment; amends KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement of financial hardship for the victim; amends KRS 49.400 to limit the penalty to the intentional filing of false information; amends KRS 216B.400 to increase the medical services eligible for reimbursement, amends KRS 216B.990 to require an online portal for reporting violations of KRS 216B.400 to aid in penalty enforcement; and amends KRS 49.380 to conform and to make technical corrections.

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Passed

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SB174 - AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Jared K. Carpenter, Rick Girdler, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 10 months ago

3 Co-Sponsors

Amends KRS 367.4903 to add definitions for “communications network,” “communications service provider,” and “communications terminal”; amends KRS 367.4909 to require that if damage is done to an underground gas or hazardous liquid facility and no attempt to locate the underground facility was made, the operator shall include in its report to the Public Service Commission the distance from the communications terminal that the damage occurred, and to require that the Public Service Commission submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025, detailing the number of damage reports from communications service providers that occurred in the area where they are allowed to use nonintrusive excavation; and amends KRS 367.4915 to exempt from the underground facility damage prevention requirements nonintrusive excavating of a depth not greater than 12 inches and within 12 inches of a communication service provider’s own communications network.

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Passed

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SB171 - AN ACT relating to school superintendents.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 11 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority plus one vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent, delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; provide an appeal process for the superintendent; amend KRS 160.380 to forbid a superintendent from employing persons convicted of certain sex crimes classified as a misdemeanor.

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Introduced

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SB130 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Adrienne E. Southworth, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 10 months ago

27 Co-Sponsors

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as the Digital Identification Act.

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Engrossed

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SR55 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jessie Belle Shacklette Talbott.

SB203 - AN ACT relating to early childhood education.

SB284 - AN ACT relating to the acquisition and ownership of real property by a foreign principal.

SB43 - AN ACT relating to motor vehicle theft.

SJR166 - A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to include Richie Weems and the Continental Five on the Country Music Highway in Pike County.

SR202 - A RESOLUTION recognizing April 11 to 17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.

SB122 - AN ACT relating to forcible detainer actions.

SJR188 - A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the PFC Larry Gene Ratliff Memorial Highway in Martin County.

SB319 - AN ACT relating to victims of crime.

SB174 - AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.

SR121 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jeannie Hensley George.

SR61 - A RESOLUTION designating January 11, 2024, as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

SR124 - A RESOLUTION honoring George Smith on being named pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Leitchfield.

SB171 - AN ACT relating to school superintendents.

SB130 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.