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HB518 - AN ACT relating to firearm safety.
Keturah Herron, George A. Brown, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to produce and distribute educational materials related to firearm safety, suicide prevention, and conflict resolution; require sellers of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, components of ammunition, firearms accessories, or any combination thereof to display the educational materials; establish civil penalties for failure to display; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to enforce display requirements; require money from of civil penalties to be credited to the Kentucky mental health first aid training fund
STATUS
Introduced
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 7 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
HB797 - AN ACT relating to wages.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
STATUS
Introduced
HB796 - AN ACT relating to firearms and making an appropriation therefor.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "permanently inoperable"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of unregistered large capacity ammunition feeding devices; establish a large capacity ammunition feeding device registration program under the Department of Kentucky State Police; authorize a trust and agency account; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB549 - AN ACT relating to social studies curriculum.
Adrielle Camuel, Keturah Herron, Chad Aull
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.196 to require social studies instruction, materials, and academic standards to include the roles and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the history of the United States and the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Introduced
HB429 - AN ACT relating to reproductive health care.
Lindsey Burke, George A. Brown, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Introduced
HB25 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Daniel A. Fister, Kim King, George A. Brown
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 17.500 to include distribution of matter portraying a sexual performamce by a minor in the definition of "sex crime"; amend KRS 439.3401 to include possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor and distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor in the definition of "violent offender"; amend KRS 532.060 to require a person who has been convicted of a violation of KRS 529.100, 529.110, 531.320, 531.335, or 531.340 to serve five years of postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.200 to redefine "violent felony offense" as an offense that would classify a person as a violent offender under KRS 439.3401.
STATUS
Introduced
HB520 - AN ACT relating to destruction of firearms.
Keturah Herron, George A. Brown, Josie Raymond
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
STATUS
Introduced
HB795 - AN ACT relating to city meetings.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 83A.130, 83A.140, and 83A.150 to require a city's legislative body to create an agenda that is distributed to members of the body at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and made available to the public at the time of the meeting.
STATUS
Introduced
HB794 - AN ACT relating to elections.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 118.125 to require the Secretary of State or county clerk to verify a candidate's address and precinct number prior to the candidate filing deadline; require the Secretary of State or county clerk to verify that the voters signing the candidate's petition for office reside in the same district or jurisdiction as the candidate.
STATUS
Introduced
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