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HR57 - A RESOLUTION urging Governor Andy Beshear to express support for Governor Greg Abbott and the State of Texas in their efforts to secure the border.
Richard Heath, Rebecca Raymer, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 8 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Urge Governor Andy Beshear to express support for Governor Greg Abbott and the State of Texas in their efforts to secure the border.
STATUS
Introduced
HB42 - AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for veterans' service animals.
Emily Callaway, Candy D. Massaroni, Marianne Proctor
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "disability" and "service animal"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt veterinarian services and charges for veterans' service animals from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB349 - AN ACT relating to in line of duty disability benefits and declaring an emergency.
Emily Callaway, John C. Blanton, Josh Calloway
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to provide full hospital and medical insurance benefits for a member, their spouse, and their dependents if the member becomes disabled in the line of duty with a hazardous disability; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB190 - AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefits.
Scott L. Sharp
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends 2024 Ky. Acts. ch. 104, sec. 3 (2024 RS SB 188/GA, sec. 3) to define “national average drug acquisition cost,” to temporarily exempt retail chain pharmacies from minimum drug reimbursement requirement, and to make technical amendment; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB5 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Jared A. Bauman, Shane Baker, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 5 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB212 - AN ACT relating to the mental health of first responders.
Billy Wesley, Kimberly Banta, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 7 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program.
STATUS
Engrossed
HR45 - A RESOLUTION expressing support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemning the violent events on October 7, 2023.
Daniel Grossberg, Chad Aull, Shane Baker
Last updated 8 months ago
81 Co-Sponsors
Affirm Kentucky's support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemn the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
STATUS
Passed
HB123 - AN ACT relating to income taxation of military pensions.
Walker Wood Thomas, Myron B. Dossett, David Hale
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and their surviving spouses or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
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
HB166 - AN ACT relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Jason Michael Nemes, Danny R. Bentley, Alan Gentry
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is found to be the cause or the suspected cause of death, and to provide that the Act may be cited as Jami’s Law.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-100
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Scott L. Sharp is from Cherry Valley, California. He received his BA and JD from Stanford University. Sharp was an attorney and business owner. In 2014, Sharp was elected to the California State Assembly to represent the 5th District. He served on the Appropriations, Banking and Finance, and Revenue and Taxation committees. Sharp focused on job creation, improving education, and government reform during his tenure.read less
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