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SB6 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions.
Mike Wilson, Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR73 - A RESOLUTION recognizing Leland "Lee" Smith of the Kentucky State Police Facilities Security Division on the occasion of his retirement.
Donald Douglas, Stephen L. Meredith, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Recognize Leland "Lee" Smith of the Kentucky State Police Facilities Security Division on the occaision of his retirement.
STATUS
Passed
SB91 - AN ACT providing funding and establishing conditions for state government agencies and institutions, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Jimmy Higdon, Matthew D. Deneen, Greg Elkins
Last updated 5 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Delete original provisions; amend enacted 2024 RS HB 1, HB 6, and HB 265 to provide additional appropriations and provisions for various programs and projects; make stand-alone supplemental appropriations; establish various conditions for supplemental appropriations; amend KRS 45A.100 to increase the threshold for small purchases by the Finance and Administration Cabinet, state institutions of higher education, and the legislative branch of government; amend KRS 45A.190 to increase the performance bond threshold for certain construction contracts to conform; amend KRS 56.491 to increase the threshold for approval required for certain capital construction projects; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB144 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg, Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
STATUS
Introduced
SB149 - AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.
Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg, Robin L. Webb
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with the prescription drugs cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs to limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; repeal KRS 304.38A-120, relating to assignment of certain benefits under limited health service organization plans, to consolidate like provisions; apply provisions to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB23 - AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Michael Nemes, Donald Douglas, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of the real property that is assessed after the later of the year the owner turned 65 or the year the owner purchased the property; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR108 - A RESOLUTION designating February 2, 2024, as Wear Red Day.
Stephen L. Meredith, Donald Douglas
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Designate February 2, 2024, as Wear Red Day to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and women's health.
STATUS
Passed
SB8 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Education.
Mike Wilson, Steve West, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 7 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including a partisan primary and partisan regular election; amend KRS 156.040 to add a requirement that members of the Kentucky Board of Education shall not have served on a local school board for at least four years preceding the year of their election; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process for removal of a member of the Kentucky Board of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.031, which relates to the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education; establish a schedule for transitioning from appointed to elected members; allow appointees to continue to serve in accordance with their appointments until December 31, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB118 - AN ACT relating to trespass.
Stephen L. Meredith
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 529.110 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property.
STATUS
Passed
SB5 - AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses and declaring an emergency.
Jay Williams, Damon Thayer, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 7 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-005
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Stephen L. Meredith is a Republican member of the Missouri State Senate, representing District 12. He was first elected to the chamber in 2020. Meredith earned his B.A. from the University of Missouri. His professional experience includes working as a City Administrator for the City of St. Charles, as an attorney, as an Assistant State Auditor.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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