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SJR175 - A JOINT RESOLUTION facilitating the deployment of broadband internet service to unserved and underserved citizens in the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Damon Thayer, Donald Douglas, Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 9 months ago

8 Co-Sponsors

Directs the Public Service Commission to promulgate emergency administrative regulations on utility pole attachments for broadband service providers that will address the backlog of pole attachment requests; establishes parameters for preventing delays and backlogs of requests; requires the Public Service Commission to open a docket to receive comments and requests from affected parties; and requires the Public Service Commission to issue a quarterly report to the Legislative Research Commission beginning September 30, 2024; EMERGENCY.

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Passed

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SB126 - AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 77 and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limiting the Governor's ability to grant pardons and commute sentences.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Christian McDaniel, Matthew D. Deneen, Shelley Frommeyer
Last updated 10 months ago

3 Co-Sponsors

Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor's ability to grant pardons or commute sentences beginning 30 days prior to a gubernatorial election and ending at that gubernatorial inauguration; amend Section 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.

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Engrossed

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SB192 - AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
David P. Givens, Matthew D. Deneen, Greg Elkins
Last updated 11 months ago

4 Co-Sponsors

Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE; allow funds to be used for career and technical education programming for students in grades 5-8; disburse 75% of administrative operating funds previously designated to state-operated facility administrative costs that were converted to locally operated facilities to the locally operated facility and 25% to the career and technical education innovation and support fund for innovation and support of career and technical programs; create the career and technical education support fund; require the Office of Career and Technical Education to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients; require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

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Introduced

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SB4 - AN ACT relating to sick leave for members of the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Jimmy Higdon, Damon Thayer
Last updated 11 months ago

2 Co-Sponsors

Amend KRS 161.155 to specify that sick leave payments made to certified school employees who began participating in the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) prior to January 1, 2022, and who retire from TRS on or after July 1, 2024, shall be limited to the sick leave accrued by the employee as of June 30, 2024, plus no more than 10 additional sick leave days accrued each fiscal year thereafter; provide that the 10 additional days eligible for payment shall not include personal leave, emergency leave, or other forms of non-sick leave balances; require each school district to annually report sick leave balances to TRS beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 and specify contents of the report; amend KRS 161.152 and 161.154 to further clarify that emergency leave and personal leave shall not be converted to sick leave under KRS 161.155; amend KRS 161.400 to require TRS to annually report in the annual actuarial valuation the total liabilities and costs of the sick leave program created by KRS 161.155; amend KRS 161.623 to allow school districts to convert excess sick leave accrued annually in excess of 10 days specified by the bill to service credit in TRS the school district pays the cost of conversion; amend KRS 161.643 to include new sick leave reporting requirements in the annual statutory reporting requirements for TRS employers; provide that the Auditor of Public Accounts shall perform a special audit of the sick leave program to ensure sick leave balances are being reported correctly to TRS and specify that TRS shall pay the costs of the audit; EMERGENCY.

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SCR142 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective School District Governance Task Force.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Lindsey Tichenor, Matthew D. Deneen, Michael Nemes
Last updated 11 months ago

4 Co-Sponsors

Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective School District Governance Task Force; outline task force duties; require the task force to submit any recommendations and changes the task force may adopt by December 1, 2024; establish membership; require the task force to meet at least twice per month; require the Legislative Research Commission to provide needed staff and to determine meeting locations; authorize the commission to enter into contracts for consultants to assist the task force in its duties.

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Introduced

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SB93 - AN ACT relating to education.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Stephen L. Meredith, Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas
Last updated 12 months ago

4 Co-Sponsors

Amend KRS 161.164 to prohibit that a local school district or public charter school from requiring a statement, pledge, or oath, other than to uphold general and federal law, the United States Constitution, and the Constitution of Kentucky, as a part of any recruitment, hiring, employment, promotion, disciplinary, or evaluation process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; prohibit public school districts and schools from expending any resources or funds to purchase membership in, or goods and services from, any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion; to prohibit public school districts and schools from expending any resources or funds on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging or political or social activism; prohibit public school districts from engaging in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; provide a limited exception for compliance with state or federal law; amend KRS 158.4416 to strike all references to trauma-informed approach; amend KRS 158.4414 to conform.

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Introduced

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SB18 - AN ACT relating to school bus equipment.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Matthew D. Deneen, Mike Wilson
Last updated 9 months ago

2 Co-Sponsors

Amends KRS 156.153 to require that the standards and specifications for accessory equipment and supplies and replacement equipment shall be based on federal safety standards and shall not discriminate among manufacturers unless there is evidence that a specific manufacturer’s product is defective or dangerous to use, to require that the Kentucky Department of Education provide the list of standards and specifications for accessory equipment and supplies and replacement equipment to the Finance and Administration Cabinet for the purpose of maintaining a list of price contracts, and to create a section of KRS Chapter 45A requiring the cabinet to maintain a list of price contracts for procurement of those items.

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Passed

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SR221 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Montgomery County High School 2024 Mock Trial Team.

SJR175 - A JOINT RESOLUTION facilitating the deployment of broadband internet service to unserved and underserved citizens in the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency.

SB126 - AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 77 and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limiting the Governor's ability to grant pardons and commute sentences.

SB251 - AN ACT relating to education.

SB254 - AN ACT relating to education.

SB250 - AN ACT relating to education.

SB192 - AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

SB4 - AN ACT relating to sick leave for members of the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.

SB163 - AN ACT relating to cremation of dead bodies.

SR211 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dr. Michael Louis Scott Sr.

SR169 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Robert Regan "Bob" Moss.

SR243 - A RESOLUTION honoring Transylvania University women's basketball Associate Head Coach Hannah Varel, 2024 Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year.

SCR142 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective School District Governance Task Force.

SB93 - AN ACT relating to education.

SB18 - AN ACT relating to school bus equipment.