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HB386 - AN ACT relating to purchase limits for pseudoephedrine.
Robert B. Duvall, Kevin D. Bratcher, Daniel B. Elliott
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 218A.1446 to remove annual and package purchase limits for pseudoephedrine.
STATUS
Passed
HR45 - A RESOLUTION expressing support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemning the violent events on October 7, 2023.
Daniel Grossberg, Chad Aull, Shane Baker
Last updated 8 months ago
81 Co-Sponsors
Affirm Kentucky's support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemn the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
STATUS
Passed
HB189 - AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools and making an appropriation therefor.
Chad Aull, Scott Lewis, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 9 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Jared A. Bauman, Shane Baker, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 5 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB371 - AN ACT relating to mine subsidence insurance.
D. Wade Williams, Jonathan Dixon, Jacob D. Justice
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 304.44-030 to increase the maximum total insured value to be reinsured by the administrator per structure from $300,000 to $500,000, to allow the administrator to establish a different maximum total insured value reinsured per structure when certain requirements are met, to allow an insurer to implement a the maximum total insured value established by the administrator any time after receiving notice, to require that the commissioner of insurance promulgate a regulation to establish a process for notice to insurers, and to increase the coverage amount for living expenses from $25,000 to $50,000; amends KRS 304.44-050 to conform; and applies to policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HCR31 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurrence of disasters.
Myron B. Dossett, Walker Wood Thomas, John C. Blanton
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Urge local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurance of disasters.
STATUS
Introduced
HB387 - AN ACT relating to education.
Timothy Truett, Killian Timoney, Josh Bray
Last updated 5 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with any building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction trades, to provide professional development credit to school counselors, and teachers if resources allow, who participate in the program, and to require the department to include the training program on the electronic consumer bulletin board; and amends KRS 161.102 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to issue substitute teacher certificates based on education attained, to provide a one-year certificate to an applicant with a high school equivalency diploma, to provide a five-year substitute teaching certificate to an applicant with a bachelor’s degree, to provide a 10-year substitute teaching certificate to an applicant who holds a Kentucky statement of eligibility, previously held a Kentucky teaching certificate, or holds or previously held a valid out-of-state teaching certificate that required completion of a four-year teacher preparation program, and to specify the type of employment each certificate allows.
STATUS
Passed
HB400 - AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine programs at comprehensive universities.
Richard Heath, Steven Jack Rudy, Shane Baker
Last updated 7 months ago
55 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB694 - AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor.
Chris Fugate, Scott Lewis, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium; appropriate $153 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium to the Department of Education to provide the payments; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB218 - AN ACT relating to identity documents.
Scott Lewis, Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Chris Fugate
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 186.4101 to require the Transportation Cabinet to give notice to individuals of pending expiration of operator's licenses, instruction permits, and personal identification cards; specify manner of notification; prohibit nonreceipt of notice to be used as a defense for a violation of KRS 186.510.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-094
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jacob D. Justice is from West Virginia. He earned his B.S. degree in Finance from West Virginia University in 1993. After college, he started working in the financial services industry. In 1998, Jacob decided to leave the corporate world. He went on to earn his J.D. from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2001. After passing the bar exam, Jacob opened a private law practice focused on representing injured workers. He continues to run his own firm today.read less
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