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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
HB271 - AN ACT relating to child abuse.
Nicolas Wilson, Samara Rae Heavrin, Jennifer Henson Decker
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 600.020 to define “safety plan” and “statewide reporting system”; amends KRS 620.023 to allow a court access to a child’s protection and permanency record; amends KRS 620.030 to allow a person to make a written report of dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child, to allow child dependency, neglect, or abuse reports to be submitted electronically, and to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services establish a statewide reporting system for making reports of child dependency, neglect, and abuse via phone call or written report available to the public; amends KRS 620.032 to require that the cabinet report monthly to the General Assembly on child protective services intakes; amends KRS 605.035 to establish requirements related to when a family accountability, intervention, and response team has to refer a case to the cabinet; amends KRS 620.040 to establish new requirements for the cabinet when it is making the initial determination as to the risk of harm and immediate safety of the child; amends KRS 620.050 to require that the cabinet refer families to community-based child and family service agencies for services when it determines that a report of dependency, abuse, or neglect does not meet criteria for an investigation; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish requirements for the cabinet related to when a safety plan is put in place for a child.
STATUS
Passed
HB462 - AN ACT relating to recovery residences.
Steve Bratcher, Samara Rae Heavrin, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 205.506 to establish the conditions under which a recovery residence may provide on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services; amends KRS 222.500 to define terms related to recovery residences; amends KRS 222.502 to permit a recovery residence that provides on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services to continue to operate without certification from a certifying organization until December 31, 2024; and amends KRS 222.504 to authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and local governments to impose civil fines on uncertified recovery residences.
STATUS
Passed
HB253 - AN ACT relating to animal control officers.
Susan Tyler Witten, Kimberly Banta, Jennifer Henson Decker
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
STATUS
Introduced
HB777 - AN ACT relating to government contracts and declaring an emergency.
Shawn McPherson, Kimberly Banta, Chad Aull
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB222 - AN ACT relating to tax incentives for first-time home buyers.
Killian Timoney, Kimberly Banta, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a tax deduction for contributions made to an eligible savings account by a first-time home buyer and allow an exclusion from income for any interest earned from an eligible savings account of a first-time home buyer effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.019 and 131.190 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB442 - AN ACT relating to an exemption of sales and use tax for certain nonprofits.
James A. Tipton, Jennifer Henson Decker, Chris Fugate
Last updated 8 months ago
34 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt all sales made by resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions.
STATUS
Introduced
HB122 - AN ACT relating to revenue and declaring an emergency.
Patrick Flannery, Samara Rae Heavrin
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 132.010 and 136.010, relating to certain property taxes, to include certain mains, pipes, pipelines, and conduits in the definition of “real property”; amends KRS 132.590 to declare that property valuation administrators (PVAs) are officers whose jurisdiction and duties are coextensive to that of the Commonwealth as stated in Section 246 of the Constitution of Kentucky, to update the PVA salary schedule, to prohibit PVA salaries from exceeding limits in the Constitution and adjusted for inflation by statute, and to provide that certain PVAs who did not receive an eight percent raise in July 2022 and who are still in office receive a lump-sum payment of eight percent of the sum received for the time between the effective date of the Act and July 1, 2022; amends KRS 138.477 to exempt charging stations with a charging capacity of less than 20 kilowatts from the electric vehicle power tax; and applies Section 1 of the Act retroactively to January 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB169 - AN ACT relating to emergency medical preparedness of schools.
Ruth Ann Palumbo, Kimberly Poore Moser, Chad Aull
Last updated 5 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 158.162 to require that local boards of education maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanctioned athletic practices and competitions, and to require that an annual report on compliance with portable automated external defibrillator requirements be submitted to the Kentucky Department of Education; and amends KRS 158.1622 to expand the School AED Fund to expand the medical devices the fund can be used to purchase to include medical devices to diagnose, prevent, or treat a medical condition that is harmful to student athletes.
STATUS
Passed
HB787 - AN ACT relating to adoption.
Samara Rae Heavrin
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 405.390 to add gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-018
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Samara Rae Heavrin is running as a Republican candidate for Kentucky State House of Representatives District 58. She earned her B.A. in Political Science and History from Murray State University in 2013. Heavrin has experience working in state government and also co-owns a small business. She serves on the board of the local chamber of commerce. If elected, Heavrin says she will focus on fiscal responsibility, supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs, and improving infrastructure and internet access.read less
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