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HB30 - AN ACT relating to veterans.
Michael Lee Meredith, Walker Wood Thomas, Chad Aull
Last updated 6 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 40 establishing the Kentucky Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Suicide Prevention Program; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 337 requiring the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs to create and distribute a veterans’ benefits and services document to employers and to allow employers to keep copies of the document in a conspicuous and accessible place.
STATUS
Passed
HB88 - AN ACT relating to unlawful trade practices and declaring an emergency.
Michael Lee Meredith, Michael Pollock, Adam Bowling
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 286.2-685 as a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to make technical amendments, to remove prohibition against use of financial institution names in certain marketing and solicitations, and to establish a civil penalty for violation; amends KRS 324.160 to establish that violation of section regulating real estate service agreements by real estate licensees is improper conduct; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the use of financial institution names in the marketing and solicitations of persons who are not financial institutions in certain circumstances, to authorize enforcement by the Attorney General and any trade organization representing one or more financial institution industries, and to establish remedies for violation; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate certain real estate service agreements, to make recording of certain real estate service agreements a crime, to provide penalties for violation of recording prohibition, to authorize enforcement of the section by the Attorney General, and to authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations; makes certain violations unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive trade practices in violation of KRS 367.170; provides that the provisions of the Act are severable; RETROACTIVE, in part; EMERGENCY.
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
HB109 - AN ACT relating to swimming pools and declaring an emergency.
Kevin Jackson, Randall Bridges, Joshua Branscum
Last updated 6 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms, to establish lifeguard requirements for Class A and Class B pools, to allow swimming coaches or instructors providing instruction to count as lifeguards, to allow Class A and Class B pools to submit an alternative lifeguard staffing plan, to require that all Class A and Class B pools be equipped with an emergency shut-off switch that is accessible to lifeguards and other pool staff, to exempt single-family residences not used in connection with a home occupation or business, and to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB484 - AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Michael Lee Meredith, Mark Hart
Last updated 5 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish the emergency medical services education grant program under the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to be used for student tuition support, agency support, and emergency medical services training or educational institution support.
STATUS
Passed
HB488 - AN ACT relating to legal instruments.
Michael Lee Meredith
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 382.297 to establish when a county clerk shall admit any amendment, renewal, modification, or extension of a recorded mortgage to record, to establish when a county clerk shall admit affidavits of amendment prepared and executed by an attorney to record, and to establish recording requirements and construction of section; and amends KRS 413.100 to establish when a promise, acknowledgment, or payment of money operates as an extension of a lien in a recorded mortgage or deed, and to establish recording requirements for an extended lien.
STATUS
Passed
HB726 - AN ACT relating to the regulation of financial institutions.
Michael Lee Meredith
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends sections of Subtitles 1, 2, and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to consolidate statutes, to make technical corrections, and to make revisions to the required banking experience of the financial institutions commissioner, the Financial Institutions Board, prohibited practices of financial institution examiners, application of financial services code to national bank or federal savings association operating subsidiaries, examination of safe deposit boxes, transaction of business by foreign financial institutions, banking definitions, the transaction of banking or trust business in this state, state bank and trust company charter requirements, and state bank investment powers; amends sections of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 relating to the definition of a receivership court for an insolvent bank, national bank to state bank conversions, state bank branching powers, bank holidays, pledges of bank assets, bank dividends, bank acquisitions, bank concentration limits, interstate merger transactions, out-of-state bank powers, and banking code penalties; creates new sections of Subtitles 2 and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish rules of application and interpretation, to establish national bank parity regulatory authority of the commissioner, and to amend various sections to conform; repeals sections within Subtitles 1, 2, and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 relating to financial institution commissioner appointments, improperly influencing real estate appraisals, financial institution definitions, foreign financial institutions, banking business powers, bank officers and directors, capital requirements for banks and trust companies, bank branch requirements, installment loans, educational loans to minors, and revolving credit plans; amends KRS 286.3-095 to require reporting for changes in control of bank holding companies that own a state bank; amends KRS 286.3-145 to modify the requirements for state trust companies doing business outside of Kentucky; amends KRS 286.3-146 to modify the requirements for out-of-state trust companies to do business in Kentucky; amends KRS 286.3-690 to permit the commissioner of financial institutions to remove a bank employee from office; repeals Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 286, relating to the chartering and regulation of state savings and loan associations, except provision relating to transacting of business by out-of-state savings and loan associations; repeals Subtitles 7 and 10 of KRS Chapter 286, relating to the licensing and regulation of industrial loan corporations and title pledge lending; amends KRS 286.8-034 to modify application fees and annual assessment fees for mortgage loan companies and mortgage loan brokers; repeals KRS 365.205, relating to printing requirements for personal checks; and provides for the initial and staggered appointments to the Financial Institutions Board.
STATUS
Passed
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
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
HB727 - AN ACT relating to school district buildings.
Michael Lee Meredith
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 160.160 to authorize a school district to issue general obligation bonds in accordance with KRS Chapter 66, to authorize the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to intercept debt service payments when due for a general obligation bond issue, to make conforming amendments, to add language to suspend the requirement for prior approval for a local board to commence the funding, financing, design, construction, renovation, or modification of district facilities until June 30, 2027, to require a local board to continue to submit BG-1 Project Application forms, to ensure that KDE shall continue to have authority to intercede on bond payments until June 30, 2027, to provide for an expedited process for approval of district facility plans and the acquisition and disposal of property, to require that KDE provide assistance to districts upon request concerning facilities and properties procedures, to ensure current applications are governed by these sections, to includes extracurricular facilities as facilities covered by the Act, and to declare that nothing in specified sections waives prior approval of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds or other federal funds for which federal law requires state authorization; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to allow school districts to issue general obligation bonds.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-019
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Michael Lee Meredith is from Louisville, Kentucky. He received his BA in Religion from Hanover College in Indiana and his law degree from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. Meredith previously worked as a corporate attorney and served as general counsel for Cobalt Ventures, an investment management firm and technology incubator based in Louisville. He also has experience in the energy and agriculture sectors.read less
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