SB58 - AN ACT relating to property tax rates.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 132.017 to reduce the number of qualified voters needed to form a petition committee, to allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct, to remove the requirement that petition signees put their Social Security number or the name and number of their designated voting precinct on the petition, and to require that petition signees put their birth year on the petition.
STATUS
Passed
SB364 - AN ACT relating to retail electric suppliers.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Phillip Wheeler, Johnnie L. Turner, Robert M. Mills
Last updated 7 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to direct the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations to require retail electric suppliers to file integrated resource plans on a triennial basis and include an assessment and acquisition plan for adequate and reliable electricity to meet customer demand at the lowest possible cost of forecasted estimates; require retail electric suppliers to maintain adequate service by owning or contracting capacity to meet customer demand; prohibit retail electric suppliers filing integrated resource plans to purchase capacity or energy from regional transmission organizations or independent system operators; make the privilege to serve customers in a certified territory a property right of the Commonwealth; require the Public Service Commission to allow the commission to determine an amount to be returned to customers of an electric retail supplier that is based on a calculation of the privilege to serve in a certified territory in a proceeding involving an acquisition, transfer, or sale of an electric retail supplier; amend KRS 278.010 to state that the term 'facility' may be used in singular or plural and 'adequate service' includes generating capacity; amend KRS 278.016 to state that retail electric supplier has the privilege to provide electric service; amend KRS 278.018 to state that retail electric suppliers have the privilege rather than right to furnish retail electric service in its certified territory; and if the Public Service Commission find that a retail electric supplier is not providing adequate service the Public Service Commission may order the supplier to correct the problem; allow the commission to authorize another retail electric supplier to serve facilities located in the certified territory of another retail electric supplier; amend KRS 278.020 to determine whether public ownership of a retail electric supplier can achieve lower rates and deem cooperatives organized under KRS Chapter 279 to have public ownership.
STATUS
Introduced
SB152 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
David Yates, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
STATUS
Introduced
SB6 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mike Wilson, Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas
Last updated 7 months ago12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB147 - AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lindsey Tichenor, Jay Williams, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 7 months ago13 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB372 - AN ACT relating to towed vehicles.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 186A.190 to allow for the disposal of involuntarily towed vehicles by a towing and storage company.
STATUS
Introduced
SCR187 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Health Care Disparities Task Force.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stephen L. Meredith, Donald Douglas
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Establish the Health Care Disparities Task Force; establish task force membership; require task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB232 - AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education shall submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer, but prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring prior approval of the district's plans; amend KRS 156.160 to provide for the approval and appeal process for a district's purchase or disposal of real property; amend KRS 157.420 conform; establish the requirements for a district facilities plan; amend KRS 157.440, 157.615, 157.620, 157.621, 157.622, 158.814, and 160.105 to conform; amend KRS 160.160 to allow use of estimates of the cost of a project by licensed architects or engineers for establishing the financing; remove the requirement for a district to obtain prior approval from the department for a mortgage or lien on a school building or for leasing a building; amend KRS 158.102 to remove minimum requirements for a school librarian; amend KRS 199.882 to include an employer directly paying for the child-care facilities and facility maintenance on behalf of a child-care provider in the definition of "contribution"; allow for the renewal of an emergency teaching certificate for the 2024-2025 school year; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB255 - AN ACT relating to social work.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Julie Adams, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Retain original provisions; require a social worker to make a reasonable attempt to verify the identity of a client; require the use of non-public facing HIPAA compliant technology products.
STATUS
Passed
SR1 - A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 5 months ago36 Co-Sponsors
Honor the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
STATUS
Passed
SJR140 - A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Danny Carroll
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Directs the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities, including but not limited to conducting a survey of nuclear regulatory staff in other states, contracting with personnel with expertise in nuclear regulatory matters to be available to assist immediately with any nuclear siting or construction applications that may be filed with the commission, providing for the training of existing staff on nuclear siting and construction issues, amending the administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to require that electric utilities consider all generation resources, including nuclear resources, when developing their triennial integrated resource plans, and reviewing all other administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to ensure that there are no impediments to the effective regulation of nuclear facilities or any obstructions to the development of the nuclear ecosystem in the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Passed
SB310 - AN ACT relating to agriculture.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jason G. Howell
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to add gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
SR212 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of Dr. Harry Ward,.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jason G. Howell
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Honor Dr. Harry Ward for his dedication and service to animals and his community.
STATUS
Passed
SR319 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Jennifer Harpe-Bates to the Board of Nursing.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Julie Adams
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Confirm the appointment of Jennifer Harpe-Bates to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
STATUS
Introduced
SB191 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary education funding and declaring an emergency.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
David P. Givens, Gerald A. Neal, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 5 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 164.092 to define “nontraditional age students,” to remove all references to “minority,” to require that any formula not include race-based metrics or targets, to increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 percent to 40 percent, to decrease the percentage of public university funding for student credit hours earned from 35 percent to 30 percent, to include in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System’s student success outcomes weighting for credentials aligned with the economic needs of the state and recognize credentials earned by nontraditional-age students, to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) promulgate an emergency or amended administrative regulation to implement the amended funding formula, to require that the Postsecondary Education Working Group convene during the 2024 Interim for the sole purpose of considering how to define “underrepresented students” for the comprehensive funding model for the public postsecondary education system, to require that the recommendations be reported to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024, and to require that CPE distribute allocable resources based on first-generation college students receiving bachelor’s degrees and low-income students; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed