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SB141 - AN ACT relating to volunteer firefighters.
Phillip Wheeler, Johnnie L. Turner
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable individual income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 75.400 to allow a volunteer fire department to have a minimum of six members; amend KRS 342.140, relating to workers' compensation, to allow income benefits for volunteer firemen, police, and emergency management agency members or trainees to be based on 50% of the state average weekly wage if that is greater than the average weekly wage of their regular employment.
STATUS
Introduced
SB5 - AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses and declaring an emergency.
Jay Williams, Damon Thayer, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 7 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB85 - AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders.
Adrienne E. Southworth, Johnnie L. Turner, Brandon Jackson Storm
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 532.080 to provide that a jury may fix an enhanced term of imprisonment when they find a defendant to be a persistent felony offender; provide that persistent felony offender in the first degree and second degree only applies to offenders who are convicted of a felony within the same KRS Chapter as the one previously committed; RETROACTIVE.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR84 - A JOINT RESOLUTION applying for an Article V convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for federal government officials and members of Congress.
Robert M. Mills, Phillip Wheeler, Greg Elkins
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congress; direct the Secretary of State to send copies of the joint resolution to certain federal and state officials; state that the application should be continuing until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the subject.
STATUS
Introduced
SB162 - AN ACT relating to vehicle accident reports.
Robert M. Mills, Phillip Wheeler, Danny Carroll
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 189.635 to define “law enforcement agency” and “department,” to allow law enforcement agencies to retain copies of accident reports filed with the Kentucky State Police, to allow law enforcement agencies access to vehicle accident reports and to contract with third parties to provide the reports to other entities that are eligible to receive them under the statute, and to specify that vehicle accident reports held by law enforcement agencies are exempt from the provisions of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, but are subject to the provisions of KRS 189.635; amends KRS 61.870 to conform; and makes technical corrections.
STATUS
Passed
SR123 - A RESOLUTION calling upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Johnnie L. Turner, Phillip Wheeler, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 8 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Call upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
STATUS
Passed
SR115 - A RESOLUTION recognizing and denouncing the persecution of Christians around the world.
Robert M. Mills, Phillip Wheeler, Rick Girdler
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Recognize and denounce the persecution of Christians around the world; call on the federal government to champion the cause of international religious freedom for all.
STATUS
Passed
SB147 - AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency.
Lindsey Tichenor, Jay Williams, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 7 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB148 - AN ACT relating to nonrecourse consumer legal funding.
Phillip Wheeler, Johnnie L. Turner
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; provide exemptions to the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding; prohibit engaging in the business of nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions without a license; establish licensing requirements; provide that nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions are not loans and exempt them from statute relating to interest; establish requirements for nonrecourse consumer legal funding transaction contracts; prohibit certain actions by nonrecourse consumer legal funding companies; direct that transactions made in compliance with the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding are not champerty; establish penalties; direct that the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding shall not restrict the powers or duties of the Attorney General; create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to establish disclosure requirements; establish attorney communications and responsibilities; and direct that a nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions is inadmissible as evidence; amend KRS 286.4-410, 360.010, and 372.060 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB153 - AN ACT relating to jurors.
Johnnie L. Turner, Phillip Wheeler, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 6 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 29A.080 to allow an individual age 70 or older to elect to be permanently excused from jury service; require this option to be prominently displayed at the top of the juror qualification form; require a prospective juror age 70 or older to complete only the entries for name, address, and date of birth on the juror qualification form; amend KRS 29A.090 to allow an automatic and permanent exemption from jury service for individuals age 70 or older.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-029
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Johnnie L. Turner was born in Mississippi. He has worked as a Branch Manager for Liberty National Life Insurance Company and a tax preparer for H&R Block. Turner served in the U.S. Army and received the Vietnam Combat Medal. He earned his B.S. from the University of Maryland. He has served on the School Site Council and the Woodcrest Park Planning Commission. Turner and his wife Carol have 4 children.read less
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