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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
HB450 - AN ACT relating to the protection of minors.
Nicolas Wilson, Josh Calloway, Shane Baker
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit social media companies from allowing minors to create accounts without parental consent; provide means for establishing age and providing parental consent; prohibit retention of personal information obtained through consent process; require social media companies to provide parents with means for account supervision; authorize the Attorney General to enforce through administrative and judicial action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a private civil cause of action for creation of minor social media account without consent or retention of personal information obtained through consent process.
STATUS
Introduced
HR131 - A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending the forty public schools throughout the Commonwealth that are implementing the Community School Initiative.
James A. Tipton
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize and commend the 40 public schools throughout the Commonwealth that are implementing the Community School Initiative.
STATUS
Passed
HB620 - AN ACT relating to operating a motor vehicle.
Michael Pollock, Rachel Roarx, James A. Tipton
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 189.292 to define " operating a motor vehicle," "stand-alone electronic device," and "use"; prohibit the use of a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; exempt school bus operators who are instead subject to KRS 281A.205; set forth exceptions; amend KRS 189.294 to provide that persons under 18 years shall not use a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device in any manner while driving; amend KRS 189.990 to set forth penalties for the violation of KRS 189.292 and 189.294; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to apply these provisions to commercial motor vehicle drivers; amend KRS 189.2327 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Phone-Down Kentucky Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB825 - AN ACT relating to an audit of the Kentucky Department of Education.
James A. Tipton, Kim King, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and to provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB38 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
James A. Tipton, Tina Bojanowski, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
STATUS
Introduced
HB784 - AN ACT relating to independent school districts.
James A. Tipton, John F. Hodgson
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish definitions; establish a petition process for citizens of a qualifying city to place the question of creating a new independent district and local board of education within the boundaries of the city; establish the requirements for the question and the board of education provisional election; establish the initial terms of office for the interim board of education and subsequent terms; establish the transition of authorities from the originating school district board of education to the boards of both the altered originating school district and the new independent school district; require the Kentucky Department of Education to calculate assets and liabilities of the originating school district for division to the altered originating school district and the new independent school district; authorize the altered originating district to maintain control and use of assets until the scheduled transfer to the new independent district and authorize the continued payments of debts; establish a negotiation process between the altered originating district and the new independent district to resolve the division of the originating district's assets and liabilities; establish a deadline for the negotiation to conclude with an agreement; provide a process for resolution of disagreements; establish a penalty to the districts for unresolved disputes that continue past the deadline; establish a deadline for the transfer of all assets and debts; authorize the altered originating district to continue to assess and collect taxes for both districts until the close of the tax year in which the new independent district is fully operational; provide for the distribution of collected taxes during the transition period; require the mayor of the city to call the newly elected interim board of new independent district to meet; establish the agenda for the first meeting of the new interim board; allow the interim board to request assistance from the Kentucky Department of Education and require the commissioner of education to provide assistance; establish the transition process for the new independent district to become fully functional, including budgets and financial transfers during the transition; allow for the new independent district to request a waiver of the transition timeline from the commissioner of education; allow the interim board to submit a waiver request for a statute or administrative regulation to the Kentucky Board of Education, and establish the limits of any waiver; authorize the interim board to enter into service contracts with another school district during the transition; establish a process for the interim board to vote to terminate the establishment of the new independent district due to financial unviability during the transition; establish the transition from an interim board to a fully functional board of the new independent district; require the continued collection of taxes tied to the payment of debt or interest until the debt or interest is retired; waive the requirement for school based decision making for the first year of operations of the new independent district; require the interim board of the new independent district to develop, adopt, and maintain a transition plan and establish the requirements of the plan; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a projection model for the first year of full operations of the new independent district and the altered originating district.
STATUS
Introduced
HB737 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Rachel Roarx, Kimberly Banta, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.
STATUS
Introduced
HB695 - AN ACT establishing the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness pilot project.
Kevin Jackson, Scott Lewis, Chad Aull
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations, to establish definitions, to establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project, to establish the duration and terms of the pilot project, to require that the Kentucky Department of Education implement the pilot project through selection of a service provider, to establish the qualifications and duties of the service provider, to require that the department submit a report by December 1, 2025, to the Legislative Research Commission that evaluates the pilot project, to provide the required components of the report, to authorize the department to implement the section to the extent that federal funds are available, and to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to select an entity that has already entered into a contract to provide substantially similar services to be selected as the provider for the pilot project.
STATUS
Passed
HB516 - AN ACT relating to education.
James A. Tipton
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-053
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
James A. Tipton is a Republican member of the Idaho State Senate, representing District 34. He assumed office in 2012. Tipton earned his BBA in finance from Boise State University. He went on to earn his JD from the University of Idaho College of Law. Tipton is the owner of his own law firm. He previously served as chairman of the board of directors, secretary, and board member for Snake River Alliance. He has also chaired and served on multiple community boards and initiatives over the past two decades.read less
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