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SB190 - AN ACT relating to firearms.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Danny Carroll, Julie Adams
Last updated 11 months ago

2 Co-Sponsors

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records Act; establish penalties for noncompliance; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop public awareness campaigns to inform the public and health care providers about the voluntary firearms restriction list.

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SB349 - AN ACT relating to energy policy and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Robert M. Mills, Robert Stivers, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 9 months ago

10 Co-Sponsors

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to make findings and declarations; defines terms; establishes the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and administratively attaches it to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER); provides for membership of the commission board and executive committee; provides for gubernatorial appointments of members of the commission board and executive committee and requires Senate confirmation of those appointments; requires the election of two of the executive committee members by the commission board from the board membership; provides for commission and executive committee terms; prohibits the compensation of members; makes members subject to the requirements of the executive branch code of ethics; provides for the election of the commission chair and vice chair; allows the executive committee to adopt bylaws governing the conduct of the commission’s business; prohibits direct financial relationship between a member of the executive committee and a utility; prohibits a member from serving if it would cause a conflict with or result in the disclosure of confidential information relating to any research projects at UK CAER; requires recusal and replacement of an executive committee member to prevent disclosure of confidential information; prohibits the Governor from reorganizing the commission or executive committee; allows the commission to employ an executive director, subject to confirmation by the Senate; provides for the duties of the commission, which shall include the examination and study of energy generation related topics and review of the decommissioning notices given by utilities as required by the Act; requires that the commission submit annual reports on December 1 to the Legislative Research Commission, the Governor, and the Public Service Commission to make recommendations based on the issues that the commission has examined; requires any utility seeking to retire any existing coal, oil, or natural gas-fired electric generating plant to give notice to the executive committee no later than 180 days before submitting a retirement application to the Public Service Commission as required under KRS 278.264; provides for the requirements of the notice; prohibits the disclosure of confidential information as part of the notice; requires that, within 90 days of receiving a notice, the commission hold a public hearing in the county where the retirement is proposed to occur; requires that, within 135 days of receiving notice and after the public hearing has occurred, the executive committee submit a final report with written findings and recommendations regarding the retirement to the Public Service Commission; provides for inclusion of the executive committee’s written report and any dissenting findings in any retirement application made to the Public Service Commission, which shall consider the findings before approving a retirement under KRS 278.264; requires that the executive committee or executive director, if authorized by the executive committee, have standing to intervene in any case or proceeding before the Public Service Commission; allows the executive committee to employ administrative staff or third-party consultants if funding is available; requires that the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission cease to exist on December 31, 2035; creates a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to require the Public Service Commission to issue final orders within eight months of the filing of an application by a utility; amends KRS 278.110 to require that final reports of investigations or special inquiries be filed within the public record for the case for which it was prepared; requires that the contracted person be subject to written information requests and cross-examination in any public hearing for the case in which the report was prepared; amends KRS 278.264 to require that an application for the retirement of an electric generating unit include a statement certifying compliance with the requirements of Section 1 of this Act; requires that the Public Service Commission find, in order to overcome the rebuttable presumption against the retirement, that a utility seeking to retire an electric generating unit will replace it with new electric generating capacity that has the same or higher capacity value and net capability, unless the utility can demonstrate that it is not necessary; requires that the Public Service Commission find, in order to overcome the rebuttable presumption against the retirement, that the retirement will not commence until the replacement generating capacity is fully constructed, permitted, and in operation, unless the utility can demonstrate that it is necessary to commence the retirement earlier; defines “dispatchable” and “intermittent”; and provides for the staggering of initial appointments to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission; EMERGENCY.

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SB258 - AN ACT relating to student journalist freedom.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 10 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to state legislative findings; establish definitions; provide additional free speech protections for student journalists; place limitations on additional protections; provide protection for student media advisors; require each district to adopt a written policy for time, place, and manner restrictions and for an appeals procedure; provide that student speech not be considered school speech; provide that a student journalist or student media advisor may seek injunctive relief; provide that the Act may be cited as the New Voices Act.

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Introduced

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SB109 - AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 12 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

Amend KRS 164.7879 to increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base amount for each eligible grade point average; increase the supplemental award amounts; require a supplemental award for eligible Cambridge Advanced International scores; increase the award amount for an eligible student enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; amend KRS 164.7874, 164.7881, 164.7884, and 164.7885 to conform; EMERGENCY.

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SR335 - A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Edward Hoppy Bennett to the Kentucky State Fair Board.

SR386 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Matthew Rhodes to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission.

SR322 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael Eaves to the Personnel Board.

SR321 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Leigh Ann Wiggins to the Parole Board.

SR363 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Walter Robertson to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission.

SR325 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Charles Roberts to the Board of Physicians and Advisors.

SR224 - A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Phillipe W. Rich as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.

SB190 - AN ACT relating to firearms.

SB349 - AN ACT relating to energy policy and declaring an emergency.

SR197 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Rand Leslie Marshall.

SR219 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of LaDonna Lynn Koebel.

SB258 - AN ACT relating to student journalist freedom.

SB264 - AN ACT relating to state holidays and declaring an emergency.

SB109 - AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships and declaring an emergency.

SR180 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Gustave Edward LaFontaine Jr.

Rep Josh Bray (HD-071)

Rep Deanna L. Frazier Gordon (HD-081)

Rep Adam Bowling (HD-087)

Rep Derek Lewis (HD-090)

Rep Jared A. Bauman (HD-028)

Rep Walker Wood Thomas (HD-008)

Rep Kimberly Banta (HD-063)

Sen Donald Douglas (SD-022)

Rep Cherlynn Stevenson (HD-088)

Rep Kevin Jackson (HD-020)

Sen Shelley Frommeyer (SD-024)

Rep Steve Bratcher (HD-025)

Sen Whitney H. Westerfield (SD-003)

Sen Christian McDaniel (SD-023)

Rep George A. Brown (HD-077)