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SB166 - AN ACT relating to foreign organizations in education.
Lindsey Tichenor, Mike Wilson, Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 156 and 164 to forbid the involvement of government-organized nongovernmental organizations based in the People's Republic of China in education in Kentucky.
STATUS
Introduced
SR271 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Robert Willis Lindsey.
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert Willis Lindsey.
STATUS
Passed
SR270 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Justine Collins.
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Justine Collins.
STATUS
Passed
SR269 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jarrod Brent "Pork Chop" Edmonds.
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jarrod Brent “Pork Chop” Edmonds.
STATUS
Passed
SB295 - AN ACT relating to vaccines.
Lindsey Tichenor, Steve West, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJR188 - A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the PFC Larry Gene Ratliff Memorial Highway in Martin County.
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 292 in Martin County as the PFC Larry Gene Ratliff Memorial Highway.
STATUS
Introduced
SB306 - AN ACT relating to acceptance of cash payments.
Adrienne E. Southworth, Lindsey Tichenor, Rick Girdler
Last updated 7 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a person, business, or agency who sells goods and services or collects fees from requiring the use of a credit or debit card or refusing cash in a face-to-face sale; amend KRS 365.990 to create a penalty for violations.
STATUS
Introduced
SB296 - AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.
Phillip Wheeler, Johnnie L. Turner
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements to submit the statement for services; amend KRS 342.033 to delete "physician" and insert "medical professional" to allow medical professionals to provide direct testimony through a written medical report; amend KRS 342.125 to allow an administrative law judge to reopen and review any award or order for post-award request for vocational rehabilitation; amend KRS 342.140 to include unemployment benefits in the average weekly wage calculation; amend KRS 342.276 to require the commissioner to promulgate regulations requiring parties to demonstrate attempts have been made to reach a settlement and that mediation will be beneficial to resolve the issues; amend KRS 342.281 to provide that after an order of reconsideration has been rendered, subsequent petitions for reconsideration shall not toll the time to appeal unless the petition for reconsideration is filed to correct an order on reconsideration; amend KRS 342.310 to provide that if an administrative law judge determines a medical dispute was frivolously filed or filed for the purpose of harassment by an employer, its third-party administrator, or the responsible insurer, attorney's fees may be assessed; amend KRS 342.315 to add University of Pikeville to the medical schools that the commissioner shall contract with to evaluate workers, delete "physicians" and insert "medical professionals" qualified as "B" readers in cases involving coal workers' pneumoconiosis, delete "physicians" and insert "medical professionals" performing evaluations for injuries or occupational hearing loss; amend KRS 342.316 to delete "physician" and insert "medical professional" to provide at least one written medical report in filing occupational disease claims; amend KRS 342.320 to delete "physicians" and insert "medical professionals" fees which are subject to approval of an administrative law judge; amend KRS 342.794 to delete "physicians" and insert "medical providers" in the "B" reader list.
STATUS
Introduced
SB341 - AN ACT relating to energy.
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 224.10-225 to make grammatical correction and gender conformity.
STATUS
Introduced
SB349 - AN ACT relating to energy policy and declaring an emergency.
Robert M. Mills, Robert Stivers, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to make findings and declarations; defines terms; establishes the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and administratively attaches it to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER); provides for membership of the commission board and executive committee; provides for gubernatorial appointments of members of the commission board and executive committee and requires Senate confirmation of those appointments; requires the election of two of the executive committee members by the commission board from the board membership; provides for commission and executive committee terms; prohibits the compensation of members; makes members subject to the requirements of the executive branch code of ethics; provides for the election of the commission chair and vice chair; allows the executive committee to adopt bylaws governing the conduct of the commission’s business; prohibits direct financial relationship between a member of the executive committee and a utility; prohibits a member from serving if it would cause a conflict with or result in the disclosure of confidential information relating to any research projects at UK CAER; requires recusal and replacement of an executive committee member to prevent disclosure of confidential information; prohibits the Governor from reorganizing the commission or executive committee; allows the commission to employ an executive director, subject to confirmation by the Senate; provides for the duties of the commission, which shall include the examination and study of energy generation related topics and review of the decommissioning notices given by utilities as required by the Act; requires that the commission submit annual reports on December 1 to the Legislative Research Commission, the Governor, and the Public Service Commission to make recommendations based on the issues that the commission has examined; requires any utility seeking to retire any existing coal, oil, or natural gas-fired electric generating plant to give notice to the executive committee no later than 180 days before submitting a retirement application to the Public Service Commission as required under KRS 278.264; provides for the requirements of the notice; prohibits the disclosure of confidential information as part of the notice; requires that, within 90 days of receiving a notice, the commission hold a public hearing in the county where the retirement is proposed to occur; requires that, within 135 days of receiving notice and after the public hearing has occurred, the executive committee submit a final report with written findings and recommendations regarding the retirement to the Public Service Commission; provides for inclusion of the executive committee’s written report and any dissenting findings in any retirement application made to the Public Service Commission, which shall consider the findings before approving a retirement under KRS 278.264; requires that the executive committee or executive director, if authorized by the executive committee, have standing to intervene in any case or proceeding before the Public Service Commission; allows the executive committee to employ administrative staff or third-party consultants if funding is available; requires that the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission cease to exist on December 31, 2035; creates a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to require the Public Service Commission to issue final orders within eight months of the filing of an application by a utility; amends KRS 278.110 to require that final reports of investigations or special inquiries be filed within the public record for the case for which it was prepared; requires that the contracted person be subject to written information requests and cross-examination in any public hearing for the case in which the report was prepared; amends KRS 278.264 to require that an application for the retirement of an electric generating unit include a statement certifying compliance with the requirements of Section 1 of this Act; requires that the Public Service Commission find, in order to overcome the rebuttable presumption against the retirement, that a utility seeking to retire an electric generating unit will replace it with new electric generating capacity that has the same or higher capacity value and net capability, unless the utility can demonstrate that it is not necessary; requires that the Public Service Commission find, in order to overcome the rebuttable presumption against the retirement, that the retirement will not commence until the replacement generating capacity is fully constructed, permitted, and in operation, unless the utility can demonstrate that it is necessary to commence the retirement earlier; defines “dispatchable” and “intermittent”; and provides for the staggering of initial appointments to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Kentucky district SD-031
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
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