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HB258 - AN ACT relating to the torture of a dog or cat.
Susan Tyler Witten, Ryan Dotson, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 525.135 to define “serious physical injury or infirmity” and to redefine “torture,” to provide that torture of a dog or cat is a Class D felony in every instance and that each act may constitute a separate offense, and to provide what does not constitute torture of a dog or cat.
STATUS
Passed
HB499 - AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Bobby Wayne McCool, David W. Osborne, Steven Jack Rudy
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Repeals and reenacts KRS 157.069 to define terms, to require the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify CTE programs or pathways as high cost or general cost, to provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for CTE based 60 percent upon weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40 percent upon specified incentives, to provide that state-operated area technology center operating costs be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE, to allows funds to be used for CTE programming for students in grades 5-8, to disburse 75 percent 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 percent to the CTE innovation and support fund for innovation and support of CTE programs, to create the CTE support fund, to require the office to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients, to require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education, to require that program qualification and funding distribution be posted on KDE’s website, to require that local boards of education provide a one-time award to qualifying employees of a converted CTE center based on raises provided for executive branch employees, to require that KDE calculate the amounts of one-time awards, to allow districts to request reimbursement for payment of one-time awards, and to appropriate funds in the amount of $170,000 to the Learning and Results Services budget unit to administer the awards; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB641 - AN ACT relating to state government.
David W. Osborne
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 18A.035 to add gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
HB640 - AN ACT relating to agriculture.
David W. Osborne
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to add gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
HR59 - A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025.
David W. Osborne, David Meade
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Recognize and commend the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-059
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
David W. Osborne is from Kansas. He holds a Juris Doctor and owns Osborne & Associates LLC. Prior political experience includes Kansas House of Representatives 1983-1992, Kansas State Senate 1992-1997 and 2000-2012. He was also Chair of the Senate Ways & Means Committee 2005-2012.read less
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Kentucky House from Kentucky
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