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HB11 - AN ACT relating to nicotine products.
Rebecca Raymer, Michael Pollock, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 241.060 to allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to conduct hearings and appeals; amends KRS 438.305 to define terms, to require the Secretary of State to create and publish a list of certain tobacco product retailers, to require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to create and maintain a tobacco noncompliance database and reporting system, to require wholesalers to verify a retailer’s presence in the database prior to transactions, to establish and impose fines for wholesalers that unlawfully sell to a retailer that is in the noncompliance database, to make any retailer with unpaid fines that are more than 60 days overdue ineligible to sell Tobacco Control Act covered products until the fines are paid, to direct manufacturers of Tobacco Control Act covered products to provide safe harbor certification to wholesalers and retailers of their products, and to prohibit a retailer from selling Tobacco Control Act products to persons under 21 years of age; and amends KRS 438.340 to create new civil penalties and appeals process; effective January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB490 - AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drug price discrimination.
D. Wade Williams, Danny R. Bentley, John C. Blanton
Last updated 8 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
STATUS
Introduced
HB533 - AN ACT relating to economic development and declaring an emergency.
Amy Neighbors, DJ Johnson, Tom Odell Smith
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 103.240 to include the payment of working capital expenditures as an allowable use for moneys received from the sale of bonds; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB575 - AN ACT relating to the acquisition of agricultural land.
Richard Heath, David Hale, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 6 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms, prohibit a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky or participation in programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Board, and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation; allow an existing foreign-owned business to purchase adjacent agricultural land to expand the operations of the business; exempt foreign ownership or leasing of up to 350 acres for research purposes; establish the Kentucky Foreign Investment Review Board to review applications for appeal for those on the prohibited countries list wishing to purchase, lease, or acquire agricultural land, set forth requirements of the board to approve or deny an application for appeal, establish a process for an application for appeal, authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations; allow an applicant who is denied an appeal to purchase agricultural land to appeal the final decision in Circuit Court; require a county clerk to record an affidavit on any deed that conveys agricultural land and report the affidavit recordings monthly to the Kentucky Foreign Investment Review Board, require the Kentucky Foreign Investment Review Board to report to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States each month; set forth requirements to divest land that has been purchased, leased, or denied without approval of the Kentucky Foreign Investment Review Board, and direct the distribution of sale proceeds.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB553 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky rural veterinary student loan repayment program and making an appropriation therefor.
Matthew R. Koch, Chad Aull, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 6 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Repayment Program for an eligible livestock practitioner who engages in veterinary medicine in an underserved rural area or veterinary shortage area for five consecutive years; allows a livestock practitioner in an underserved rural area to practice mixed animal medicine with a minimum of 30 percent work dedicated to livestock; defines “underserved rural area” as a city having a population of less than 25,000 and lying more than 20 miles from a city having a population of more than 50,000; authorizes the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations; sets forth program eligibility requirements; authorizes the authority to award loan repayment benefits to applicants selected by the Veterinary Student Loan Repayment Selection Committee; establishes compliance requirements; creates the rural veterinary care trust fund; establishes purposes of the fund; and requires a report to the Legislative Research Commission, Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, and Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Passed
HB252 - AN ACT relating to informed consent for medical examinations.
Sarah Stalker, Kimberly Poore Moser, Chad Aull
Last updated 9 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; provide for certain exceptions including a court order; require violators to be subject to discipline by the appropriate professional licensing board or accrediting agency.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-021
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Kentucky House
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