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SB142 - AN ACT relating to paid parental leave.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Shelley Frommeyer, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or kinship care; establish requirements; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR107 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Lexington Woman's Club for over 75 years of service to the community of Fayette County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the Lexington Woman's Club and recognize its 75 years of service.
STATUS
Passed
SR116 - A RESOLUTION urging Governor Andy Beshear to support Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Brandon D. Smith, Jared K. Carpenter, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 11 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Urge Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
STATUS
Introduced
SR94 - A RESOLUTION honoring the 20th Black History Celebration and recognizing that Black history is American history.
Gerald A. Neal, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 11 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Honor the 20th Black History Celebration and recognize that Black history is American history.
STATUS
Introduced
SB97 - AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Julie Adams, Karen Berg
Last updated 12 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "clothing" and "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
STATUS
Introduced
SB128 - AN ACT relating to youth employment programs.
David P. Givens, Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to apply to the Department of Workplace Standards to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age, to require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide vocational and educational value to the minors, to establish requirements and prohibitions for participation, to establish minimum wage requirements for youth participants, to require employment to not operate on student attendance days, to provide an exemption to allow a nonprofit that currently operates or has previously operated a program to apply to the department to allow a minor to work on school attendance days but not during regular school hours, to prohibit a minor from working if the nonprofit organization was aware that the minor missed school that day, to require that the nonprofit bear the burden of proof to justify the necessity of a program on school attendance days, to require that the department be the sole decision maker in the approval or denial of any work program under this Act, and to require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 339.210 to conform.
STATUS
Passed
SB127 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Brandon Jackson Storm, Danny Carroll, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 9 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative costs shall not exceed 0.5 percent of all gross moneys in the fund or $75,000 annually, whichever is less; directs the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; requires those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; requires advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; requires that the council shall reserve at least 65 percent of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation and aerospace programs and aviation and aerospace industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation and aerospace programs; directs the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation or aerospace credential the council determines to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; directs that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establishes the minimum contract requirements; directs that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; requires that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; directs that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program, and sets minimum contract requirements; directs that a grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the fund requiring specific criteria for an aviation training scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor’s dedicated funds; directs that the aviation training scholarship contract grant the aviation program, the Commonwealth, or the aviation industry partner the authority to initiate recoupment proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all aviation training scholarships awarded to an individual who fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; directs that the council reserve up to 35 percent of all net moneys in the fund for aviation equipment partnership contracts between public aviation training programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation and aviation equipment grants; requires that an aviation equipment partnership require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council, and establishes minimum contract requirements; directs the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; directs that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provides that the council shall require the public aviation program to submit proof that the entire amount of the aviation equipment grant is invested in the maintenance, acquisition, or lease of aviation or aviation training equipment used by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; requires the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission, and establishes minimum report requirements; sunsets the bill on June 30, 2030; and provides that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (AERO) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB132 - AN ACT relating to wanton endangerment.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 11 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 508.060 to provide an enhanced penalty for discharging a firearm in the commission of an offense constituting wanton endangerment in the first degree; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a Class C felony violation of KRS 508.060 to the definition of violent offender; require a violent offender who has been convicted of a Class C felony violation of KRS 508.060 to serve at least 85 percent of his or her sentence.
STATUS
Introduced
SR245 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Boyle County High School Rebels football team, 2023 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Class 4A Champions.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the Boyle County High School Rebels, 2023 KHSAA Class 4A football champions.
STATUS
Passed
SB131 - AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Gerald A. Neal, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 10 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 117.001 to define "electioneering communication," "information content provider," "interactive computer service," "sponsor," and "synthetic media"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish a cause of action for the use of synthetic media in an electioneering communication; establish an affirmative defense that the electioneering communication includes a conspicuous disclosure; provide that the sponsor of the electioneering communication may be held liable, but the medium is not liable, except in certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
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