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SB75 - AN ACT relating to the control of vehicular traffic.
John Schickel, Steve West, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 9 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.
STATUS
Introduced
SB70 - AN ACT relating to charitable donor intent protection.
Phillip Wheeler, Gary M. Boswell, Danny Carroll
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms, to establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the agreement, to establish that a donor or a donor’s legal representative may bring a civil action against a charitable organization that violates the terms of the agreement, to limit relief to declaratory and injunctive, and to prohibit seeking a judgment awarding monetary damages.
STATUS
Passed
SB6 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions.
Mike Wilson, Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB69 - AN ACT relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate.
Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Repeal and reenact KRS 132.017 to require the portion of a property tax rate which will produce revenue from real property, exclusive of revenue from new property, more than four percent over the amount of revenue produced by the compensating tax rate to be subject to recall by the voters of the district; establish requirements for the ballot question, notifying the public, the election process, and recalling the rate; allow the cancellation of the election; disallow local, state, and federal tax dollars to be used to advocate for the rate; amend various statutes to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB58 - AN ACT relating to property tax rates.
Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 132.017 to reduce the number of qualified voters needed to form a petition committee, to allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct, to remove the requirement that petition signees put their Social Security number or the name and number of their designated voting precinct on the petition, and to require that petition signees put their birth year on the petition.
STATUS
Passed
SR39 - A RESOLUTION declaring August 2024 as Railroad Crossings Safety Awareness Month in Kentucky.
Matthew D. Deneen, Gary M. Boswell, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 7 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Recognize August 2024 as Railroad Crossings Safety Awareness Month in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SB60 - AN ACT relating to hunter education.
Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 150.170 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife from imposing a hunter education requirement for a person to obtain a hunting or fishing license or permit.
STATUS
Introduced
SB61 - AN ACT relating to elections.
John Schickel, Gary M. Boswell, Michael Nemes
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 117.076 to eliminate no-excuse in-person absentee voting; provide that excused in-person absentee voting shall be conducted during normal business hours for at least 13 working days before an election; amend KRS 117.085 and 117.086 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB55 - AN ACT relating to fishing in privately-owned lakes and ponds.
Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas, Shelley Frommeyer
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 150.170 to allow a bona fide resident landowner and other authorized persons to take fish from any lake or pond located on the owner's property without procuring a sport fishing license.
STATUS
Introduced
SB93 - AN ACT relating to education.
Stephen L. Meredith, Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas
Last updated 9 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.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-008
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Gary M. Boswell is a Republican member of the Kentucky State House, representing District 7. Boswell was first elected in 2016. Boswell was an executive at Hitachi Automotive before retiring. He has served on committees including the Interim Joint Committee on Health & Welfare and Family Services and the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary. He also chaired the Daviess County Republican Party.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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