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HB326 - AN ACT relating to public contracts.
John C. Blanton, Chad Aull, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS Chapters 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Section 1 to 3 may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB168 - AN ACT relating to the posting of veterans' benefits and services.
Bobby Wayne McCool, Emily Callaway, John C. Blanton
Last updated 9 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place.
STATUS
Introduced
HB439 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency.
Matthew R. Koch, Ruth Ann Palumbo, Killian Timoney
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 211.285 to rename the “malt beverage education fund” as the “alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund,” to add proceeds from Alcoholic Beverage Control Board distilled spirit auctions to the fund, to issue moneys from the fund to the Alcohol Wellness and Responsibility Education Corporation, to modify membership of the corporation’s board of directors, to authorize the corporation to accept grant applications from Kentucky high schools, colleges, universities, and other entities that promote alcohol responsibility, and to increase Project Graduation grants to $1,000 annually; amends KRS 241.010 to decrease the minimum number of passengers from 100 to 40 in the definition of “riverboat”; amends KRS 241.060 and 243.540 to allow the Alcoholic Beverage Control board to dispose of alcoholic beverages through public auction when a final order has been issued after all appeals are exhausted, to promulgate administrative regulations to establish auction procedures, and to donate all auction proceeds to the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund; amends KRS 241.066 to allow one quota retail package license for every 2,000 residents in any wet county or urban-county government with more than 100,000 residents, unless a lower statutory ratio is already established; amends KRS 241.069 and 242.021 to permit a city, county, or urban-county government to petition for an increase in the number of quota retail package licenses at least one year after the certification of the local option election; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish requirements for persons delivering alcoholic beverages on behalf of a retail package licensee; amends KRS 243.030 to create a $300 annual vintage distilled spirits license fee; amends KRS 243.110 to authorize the holder of a primary license to also hold a vintage distilled spirits license; amends KRS 243.200 to remove vehicle requirement provisions from a transporter’s license; amends KRS 243.232 to restructure vintage distilled spirits licenses and sales, to allow a licensee who may sell distilled spirits by the drink or package to receive a vintage distilled spirits license as a supplementary license, to require vintage distilled spirits licensees to file a monthly report with the department, to require all purchases to be in-person at the licensed premises, to direct the licensee to conspicuously label the purchase as vintage distilled spirits, to limit a licensee to 24 vintage distilled spirits packages purchased from each seller every 12 months, and to limit any seller to 24 packages total every 12 months; amends KRS 243.360 to give an applicant the option to advertise intent to apply for a license either online or in print and to exempt a vintage distilled spirits license applicant from the public notice advertising requirement; amends KRS 243.990 to establish fines for vintage distilled spirits sellers who exceed the maximum package limit; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish procedures for department seizure of alcoholic beverages, including providing notice of violations within 14 days, to return the alcoholic beverages to the licensee if the department fails to provide notice, and to establish licensee administrative hearing and Circuit Court appellate rights; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HR55 - A RESOLUTION honoring classified employees in public schools.
Scott Lewis, Chad Aull, Chris Fugate
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Honor classified employees in public schools.
STATUS
Introduced
HCR68 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Housing Task Force.
Randall Bridges, Jason Michael Nemes, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Housing Task Force to study, review, and provide policy recommendations on how to address the housing shortage in the Commonwealth; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2024 Interim; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB315 - AN ACT relating to vegetation around railroad crossings and declaring an emergency.
Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Banta, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require railroad companies to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway; require the Transportation Cabinet to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation when a railroad company fails to do so; require the railroad company to reimburse the Transportation Cabinet for costs of the removal; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB173 - AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for certified professional midwifery services.
Nima Kulkarni, Ruth Ann Palumbo, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifery services that are provided by a licensed certified professional midwife; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if such approval is deemed necessary.
STATUS
Introduced
HB785 - AN ACT relating to inheritance tax.
Ruth Ann Palumbo
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 140.070 and 140.080 to include a foster child as a Class A beneficiary and to delete language that only applies to deaths occurring prior to July 1, 1995, or between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998.
STATUS
Introduced
HB278 - AN ACT relating to the protection of children.
Matt Lockett, Daniel A. Fister, Shane Baker
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 15A.190 to require that the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet include crimes involving childhood sexual assault or abuse on the JC-3 form; amends KRS 160.380 to provide that a superintendent shall not employ any person who has been convicted of an offense that would classify the person as a violent offender, a sex crime, or a misdemeanor offense under KRS Chapter 510, or who is required to register as a sex offender; amends KRS 413.249 to provide that a civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse shall be brought within 10 years of the victim attaining the age of 18 years; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 436 to declare legislative findings relating to pornography, to define terms, to establish a civil cause of action against any commercial entity that publishes matter harmful to minors on the internet without obtaining age verification, to require removal of personal data following review for access, to establish civil causes of action for violations, and to establish limitations on applicability and liability; amends KRS 510.050 and 510.080 to provide an enhanced penalty when the defendant is a person in a position of authority or position of special trust; amends KRS 510.155 to enhance the penalty of unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to a Class C felony, and to enhance the penalty to a Class B felony if the minor or perceived minor is under 12 years old, the offender is a person is in a position of authority or position of special trust, the offender is a registered sex offender, a person travels into the Commonwealth for the purpose of procuring or promoting the use of a minor, or the child procured or promoted is for human trafficking where the offense involves commercial sexual activity; amends KRS 529.100 to enhance the penalty for human trafficking to a Class B felony, unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class A felony; amends KRS 529.110 to enhance the penalty for promoting human trafficking to a Class C felony unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class B felony; amends KRS 531.340 to enhance the penalty for distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor to a Class C felony if the victim is under 18 years old and a Class B felony if the victim is under 12 years old, and to provide that any person convicted of distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor shall not be released on probation or parole without serving 85 percent of the sentence imposed; amends KRS 532.060 to require a person who has been convicted of a violation of KRS 529.100, 529.110, 531.320, 531.335, or 531.340 to serve five years of postincarceration supervision; and amends KRS 532.200 to redefine “violent felony offense” as an offense that would classify a person as a violent offender under KRS 439.3401.
STATUS
Passed
HB298 - AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.
Chad Aull, Lindsey Burke, Ruth Ann Palumbo
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create enhanced penalties for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.070 to create enhanced periods of license suspenion for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.340 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-076
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Kentucky House
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ABOUT
Ruth Ann Palumbo is currently serving in the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 76. She was a marketing consultant for 25 years. She earned her BA from Northern Kentucky University in 1979. Palumbo served on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government from 1991 to 1999. She was elected to the Kentucky House in 1991, she is currently serving her 13th term.read less
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