| HB15 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (GRAHAM, DERRICK; Belcher, Linda; Smart, Rita) AN ACT relating to governance of postsecondary education institutions.
Amend KRS 164.011 to require new appointees to the council to complete orientation and education program to be eligible for a second term; amend KRS 164.020 to direct the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) to develop an orientation and education program for new governing board members of the council, public universities, and Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS); require that the program include six hours of instruction time with specific information and be delivered within one year of a new member's appointment; require an annual report listing new board members not completing the program; invite board members of private colleges and universities to participate; authorize the CPE to develop continuing education programs for all governing board members of public institutions and to review and approve orientation programs for governing boards of each public university and KCTCS; amend KRS 164.131 to require appointed and elected governing board members of the University of Kentucky to complete an orientation and education program to be eligible for a second term; amend KRS 164.321 to require appointed and elected governing board members of the comprehensive public universities and KCTCS to complete an orientation and education program to be eligible for a second term; amend KRS 164.821 to require appointed and elected governing board members of the University of Louisville to complete an orientation and education program to be eligible for a second term. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB15.htm |
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| HB33 | COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION (IMES, KENNY; Linder, Brian; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to the commissioner of education.
Amend KRS 156.148 to require Senate confirmation of the commissioner of education. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB33.htm |
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| HB54 | EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (SCHAMORE, DEAN; Belcher, Linda; Clark, Larry; Denham, Mike; Greer, Jeff; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Horlander, Dennis; King, Martha; Mayfield, Donna; McKee, Thomas; Meredith, Michael; Meyer, Russ A.; Mills, Terry; Nelson, Rick; Rowland, Bart; Smart, Rita; Steele, Fitz; Thompson, Tommy; Tipton, James; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.
Amend KRS 61.315 and 164.2841 to make the survivors of emergency medical services providers and rescue squad members who are killed in the line of duty eligible for the state lump-sum death benefit and exemption of matriculation or tuition fees; amend KRS 164.2842 to include the spouse or child of a permanently and totally disabled emergency medical services provider in the exemption of matriculation or tuition fees. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/3/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB54.htm |
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| HB60 | COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION (IMES, KENNY; AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 91, 93, and 95 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the Commissioner of Education.
Propose to amend Sections 91, 93, and 95 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow for statewide election for the Commissioner of Education, to be held during regular elections. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB60.htm |
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| HB72 | TUITION PROGRAM TAX DEDUCTION (MONTELL, BRAD; Rowland, Bart) AN ACT relating to an income tax deduction for qualified tuition programs.
Amend KRS 141.010 to allow a tax deduction for contributions to a qualified tuition program for higher education. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB72.htm |
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| HB80 | OPEN RECORDS (HARRIS, CHRIS; Riner, Tom; Glenn, Jim; Graham, Derrick; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to open records.
Amend KRS 61.870 to narrow the funding criteria that determines exemptions from the definition of "public agency"in the Kentucky Open Records Act. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB80.htm |
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| HB81 | TUITION WAIVERS (BELCHER, LINDA; AN ACT relating to tuition waivers for foster children.
Amend KRS 164.2847 to permit tuition waivers for foster children enrolled in a dual credit or dual enrollment course in high school. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB81.htm |
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| HB91 | GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to government contracts.
Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 45A to expand and refine the list of entities included in definition of "contracting body"; allow the Goverment Contract Review Committee to determine the definition of "governmental emergency"; refine the definition of "memorandum of agreement"; correct references to universities and colleges and institutions of higher education; refine the definition of "personal service contract" to eliminate professional skill or judgment requirement and specifically include contracts for personal or professional services and group health care for public employees; allow the committee to establish reporting schedule for exempt personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement; exempt contracts between postsecondary institutions and health care providers, but require reporting of such contracts; require committee review of all personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement in excess of $1,000,000, except for contracts involving child support collections which are exempted; exempt contracts $40,000 and under from request for proposals process, but require three quotes when feasible, and determination of unfeasibility may be reviewed by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or the committee; exempt contracts $40,000 and under not requiring professional skill or judgment from routine review process, but require filing within 30 days for informational purposes; prohibit delegation of decision-making authority by secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, except with respect to institutions of higher education that have elected to implement procurement procedures in accordance with statutory authority; delete requirement for annual reports; delineate powers of the committee. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/1/2016 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB91.htm |
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| HB92 | DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION (CLARK, LARRY; Belcher, Linda; Carney, John Bam; Horlander, Dennis) AN ACT relating to districts of innovation.
Amend KRS 160.107 to allow a waiver or modification of the statewide assessment system for schools participating in a district of innovation plan, under specific conditions; allow a district of innovation to use student assessments other than those required by the state board, under specific conditions. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/10/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB92.htm |
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| HB114 | SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY (YORK, JILL; AN ACT relating to school accountability.
Amend KRS 158.6455 to remove a student's scores from the accountability measure of a school if the student is enrolled in the school but has attended an alternative education program as a result of local school district policies or procedures for the three months prior to testing. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB114.htm |
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| HB122 | CAREER READINESS (BELCHER, LINDA; Riner, Tom; Rowland, Bart) AN ACT relating to career readiness.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to identify a student who obtains a minimum score of 36 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery as career-ready. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/2/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB122.htm |
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| HB127 | ACADEMIC CREDIT (OVERLY, SANNIE; Belcher, Linda; Denham, Mike; Nelson, Rick; Smart, Rita; Taylor, Jeff) AN ACT relating to academic credit for military experience.
Amend KRS 164.2951 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop and implement a statewide policy for public postsecondary education institutions to provide academic credit for military service and training for active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces, Reserves, and National Guard as well as veterans of the Armed Forces. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/15/2016 - received in House w/Letter
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB127.htm |
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| HB138 | STUDENT ASSESSMENTS (OWENS, DARRYL; AN ACT relating to student assessments.
Amend KRS 158.6453 to require that, beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year, assessments authorized as part of the state assessment program shall not collectively consume more than five percent (5%) of any student's instructional time during a student instructional year. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/19/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB138.htm |
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| HB142 | KENTUCKY PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES (RICHARDS, JODY; AN ACT relating to tax credits promoting research and development at Kentucky public universities.
Amend KRS 141.395 to establish a qualified research income tax credit for certain research expenses paid or incurred by the taxpayer to a Kentucky public university; declare purpose of the credit and require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission to enable the impact of the credit to be evaluated; sunset the tax credit currently permitted for the construction of research facilities; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title of the Act to be the Kentucky University Research and Development Advancement Act of 2016. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB142.htm |
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| HB145 | FREEDOM OF STUDENT SPEECH (MEEKS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to freedom of student speech at public postsecondary education institutions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to limit a public postsecondary institution's ability to restrict student speech on campus. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB145.htm |
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| HB146 | PUBLIC EDUCATION (MEEKS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to public education concerning historical items.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to provide appropriate public education regarding items related to the Confederate States of America, African-American history, Native American history, and the history of other ethnic, cultural, or religious groups having a presence in the Commonwealth and on public display; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to provide appropriate public education regarding items related to the Confederate States of America, African-American history, Native American history, and the history of other ethnic, cultural, or religious groups having a presence in the Commonwealth and on public display; create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to require the Department for Libraries and Archives to provide appropriate public education regarding items related to the Confederate States of America, African-American history, Native American history, and the history of other ethnic, cultural, or religious groups having a presence in the Commonwealth and on public display; define certain terms. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB146.htm |
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| HB155 | CIVIL RIGHTS (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; Butler, Denver; Flood, Kelly; Horlander, Dennis; Jenkins, Joni L.; Meeks, Reginald; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Simpson, Arnold; Wayne, Jim; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/12/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB155.htm |
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| HB158 | FINANCIAL AID (PALUMBO, RUTH ANN; AN ACT relating to postsecondary financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities.
Amend KRS 164.7882 to increase the amount of Kentucky educational excellence scholarships available to students enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB158.htm |
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| HB171 | GATTON AND CRAFT ACADEMIES (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Belcher, Linda; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to students attending Gatton and craft academies.
Amend KRS 157.110 to require local school districts to pay for textbooks used by their enrolled students attending the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science or the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics, not to exceed $500 per academic year. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/6/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB171.htm |
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| HB179 | CONCEALED DEADLY WEAPONS (COUCH, TIM; Lee, Stan; Nelson, Rick; Rudy, Steven; Turner, Tommy) AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Amend KRS 527.070 to allow vocational school teachers and administrators with valid concealed carry permits to carry deadly weapons on vocational school property; amend KRS 237.110 to conform. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB179.htm |
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| HB221 | CONCEALED DEADLY WEAPONS (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Heath, Richard; Imes, Kenny; Mayfield, Donna) AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Amend KRS 527.070 to allow persons with valid concealed deadly weapons licenses or temporary permits to carry concealed weapons on public elementary and secondary school property; amend KRS 237.115 to allow persons with valid concealed deadly weapons licenses or temporary permits to carry concealed weapons on public post-secondary property, and in buildings controlled by state and local government, except courtrooms and detention facilities; amend KRS 237.110 to allow persons with valid concealed deadly weapons licenses or temporary permits to carry concealed weapons in meetings of the General Assembly, and to conform. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/12/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB221.htm |
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| HB227 | PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (DONOHUE, JEFFERY; AN ACT relating to public procurement.
Create new section of KRS Chapter 45A making findings of the General Assembly and establishing policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in Kentucky and the United States; create new section of KRS Chapter 45A defining "manufactured in Kentucky," "manufactured in the United States," "Kentucky," and "United States"; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted; and provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A establishing a short title of "Kentucky Buy American Act"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance with the "Kentucky Buy American Act." |
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| | Current Status: | 1/13/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB227.htm |
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| HB233 | CHARITY AUCTIONS (HEATH, RICHARD; Hale, David; Meade, David) AN ACT relating to charity auctions.
Amend KRS 139.496 to exempt from sales and use tax the gross receipts derived from a charitable auction held between August 1, 2016, and July 31, 2020, by a nonprofit civic, governmental, or other nonprofit organization. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/13/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB233.htm |
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| HB241 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 16.505 to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments provided to members of the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; clarify that for members entering SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" shall apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; amend the definition of "final compensation" to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have three complete fiscal years of service; make technical and clerical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibited an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 16.642 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest SPRS funds in the same fashion as KERS funds under KRS 61.650; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have the required three (hazardous) or five (nonhazardous) complete fiscal years of service; clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; provide that interim positions in KERS and probationary positions in CERS shall not be renewable by the employer for the same employee unless the employee has not been employed by the agency for 12 months; clarify that for members entering KERS or CERS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" shall apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; make technical and clerical amendments; amend KRS 61.542 to remove the requirement that the estate be designated as beneficiary of a member's account when he or she requests a refund of contributions prior to retirement; provide that the member's estate shall be beneficiary of his or her account from Kentucky Retirement Systems if prior to retirement the member fails to designate a beneficiary or the beneficiary designation is found to be void; provide that a beneficiary shall not be changed on or after the first day of the month in which a retired employee begins receiving retirement benefits; provide that reemployed retirees who establish a second retirement account will have their estate named beneficiary if they fail to designate a beneficiary for their new account; amend KRS 61.545 to remove provisions allowing a member who is simultaneously eligible for participation in more than one retirement system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems to select participation in only one system; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to clarify and conform to federal law the payment options available to members for purchasing service credit; remove service purchase provisions no longer applicable to current members; require agencies who fail to report employees to the retirement system to pay penalties and interest on employer contributions from the date the contributions should have been reported to the system; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that the service credit that is granted without cost to employees who are called to active duty military deployment shall be limited to those whose rights to such benefits have not been terminated under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); require employees participating in the hybrid cash balance plan on or after January 1, 2014, who are called to active duty military deployment to pay their employee contributions if they are granted service credit, as required by USERRA, for the period of active duty deployment; require employers to make contributions for service credited to employees who are called to active duty military deployment as required by USERRA; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.557 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.560 to clarify that retirees reemployed on or after September 1, 2008, shall not pay into the systems and to make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.590 to make technical changes and to clarify that a retiring employee must separate employment with all participating system employers; amend KRS 61.645 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board to promulgate an administrative regulation to conduct trustee elections by electronic ballot; amend KRS 61.650 to increase the Kentucky Retirement Systems investment committee membership from five to seven trustees and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.680 to provide for consolidation of accounts with other state-administered retirement systems only if the member retires simultaneously from all state-administered retirement systems or retires from the other state-administered retirement systems within one month of retiring from the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.702 to require Medicare-eligible retirees who are reemployed with an employer offering a group health plan to enroll in that plan in lieu of the KRS health plans; define "monthly contribution rate"; require a recipient or the spouse or dependent children of a recipient of a retirement allowance, who is eligible to participate in Medicare to participate in the plans administered by the systems for Medicare-eligible recipients; provide that a member who retired prior to July 1, 2003, who has established a second retirement account shall not receive more than the monthly contribution rate for retiree health benefits: make technical amendments; amend KRS 78.790 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest CERS funds in the same fashion as KERS funds under KRS 61.650; amend KRS 16.520, 61.525, 61.526, 61.5525, 61.592, 78.540, 78.610, and 78.615 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide noncodified sections to provide that the successor of the additional board trustee elected by CERS that was added by SB 2 in the 2013 Regular Session shall be elected in the same period as all other CERS trustees in 2017 and shall have a shortened term from 2017 to 2021 to coincide with all other future CERS trustee terms of office; state that amendments to KRS 16.642 and 78.790 are made to conform to amendments made to KRS 61.650 in 2002 to show intent to apply KRS 61.650 changes to SPRS and CERS. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/14/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB241.htm |
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| HB243 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Fischer, Joseph M.; Meredith, Michael; Richards, Jody; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to delay the effective date of ordinary administrative regulations with a major economic impact until the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define "major economic impact" as an overall annual economic impact from an administrative regulation of $500,000 or more on state and local government and regulated entities as determined by the promulgating administrative body; amend KRS 13A.250 to require the fiscal note to include a cost analysis of the administrative regulation's effect on regulated entities and a determination by the promulgating administrative body as to the overall economic impact of the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.330 and 13A.331 to conform; specify short title of the Act. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/14/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB243.htm |
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| HB260 | STATE PROPERTY NAMING (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Crimm, Ron; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the naming of state properties, highways, and programs.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 56 to prohibit the naming of any state building or property in honor of a constitutional officer, member of the General Assembly, or justice or judge of the Court of Justice during his or her term of office or for a period of five years thereafter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to place the same restrictions on the naming of state programs or initiatives; amend KRS 177.074 to place the same restrictions upon the naming of state highways. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB260.htm |
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| HB265 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION CAPITAL PROJECTS (CLARK, LARRY; Keene, Dennis; DeCesare, Jim; Denham, Mike; Horlander, Dennis; Osborne, David W.; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Simpson, Arnold; Smart, Rita; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to postsecondary educational institution capital projects to be financed with university restricted funds.
Create a new section of KRS 164A.550 to 164A.630 to authorize capital projects undertaken by institutions of higher education using a combination of cash restricted funds, federal funds, and private funds even though the projects are not specifically listed in a branch budget bill; establish conditions under which projects will be authorized. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/19/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB265.htm |
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| HB270 | SCHOOL SAFETY (DUPLESSIS, JIM; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Dossett, Myron; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Imes, Kenny; Montell, Brad; Santoro, Sal; Tipton, James; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to school safety.
Amend KRS 520.070 to include school marshals as persons exempt from the prohibition against possession of a firearm on school property if authorized by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to allow for the appointment of a school marshal by a local school board or governing body of a private or parochial school; specify that a person authorized and appointed under this section is designated as a school marshal and enumerate restrictions on school marshal's powers; provide that persons certified to act as peace officers under KRS 15.380 are exempt from restrictions; establish requirements of eligibility for a school marshal's appointment; enumerate board's or governing bodies' responsibilities; require that schools designated as school marshal sites collaborate with the Kentucky State Police and local law enforcement on safety procedures prior to appointment of a school marshal; provide limits on liability for school boards or governing bodies that appoint school marshals; establish limits on the possession, transport, deposit, or carrying of firearms by a school marshal while on school property; limit liability for school marshals for acts or omissions undertaken pursuant to this section; provide that the school marshal is responsible for expenditures related to the purchase of a firearm, ammunition, or any other associated costs; allow that a local school board or governing body may pay compensation for expenses incurred undertaking school marshal's duties or appointment requirements; specify that otherwise lawful possession of a firearm as provided under KRS 527.070 or any other state or federal law is not restricted; exclude postsecondary or higher education institutions from coverage; require that any board of a local public school district or governing body of a private or parochial school that appoints a school marshal adopt guidelines to carry out school marshal's requirements. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB270.htm |
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| HB276 | PUBLIC UNIVERSITY TUITION (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Coursey, Will; Crimm, Ron; Riner, Tom; Taylor, Jeff) AN ACT relating to in-state tuition at public universities for members of any United States military Reserve component.
Amend KRS 164.2844 to allow public universities to offer in-state tuition to members of any United States Reserve component. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB276.htm |
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| HB278 | WAGES (STUMBO, GREG; Riner, Tom; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on August 1, 2016, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2017, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2018; amend KRS 337.010 the definition of employees of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2017; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA,1,2,3,4
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278.htm |
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| HB303 | EXECUTIVE BRANCH BUDGET (RAND, RICK; AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund (Tobacco), General Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Road Fund, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, Statewide Deferred Maintenance Fund, and other funds, $182,013,700 in fiscal year 2015-2016, $33,287,508,100 in fiscal year 2016-2017, and $32,051,036,100 in fiscal year 2017-2018 as follows: General Government 2015-2016 $22,370,700 2016-2017 $1,504,467,800 2017-2018 $1,538,644,000 Economic Development Cabinet 2015-2016 $975,000 2016-2017 $21,082,900 2017-2018 $22,017,500 Department of Education 2016-2017 $5,015,844,100 2017-2018 $5,006,558,900 Education and Workforce Development Cabinet 2015-2016 $900,000 2016-2017 $833,470,500 2017-2018 $847,236,600 Energy and Environment Cabinet 2016-2017 $244,344,100 2017-2018 $240,848,700 Finance and Administration Cabinet 2016-2017 $874,431,800 2017-2018 $919,630,900 Health and Family Services Cabinet 2015-2016 $111,126,200 2016-2017 $12,952,760,300 2017-2018 $13,442,186,100 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet 2015-2016 $21,157,300 2016-2017 $1,038,865,300 2017-2018 $1,041,148,500 Labor Cabinet 2016-2017 $233,085,300 2017-2018 $237,495,100 Personnel Cabinet 2016-2017 $65,055,000 2017-2018 $66,863,300 Postsecondary Education 2015-2016 $3,054,500 2016-2017 $7,630,081,700 2017-2018 $8,052,714,200 Public Protection Cabinet 2016-2017 $107,373,900 2017-2018 $108,306,900 Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet 2015-2016 $15,880,000 2016-2017 $234,406,800 2017-2018 $238,146,000 Budget Reserve Trust Fund 2016-2017 $153,436,000 2017-2018 $160,960,900 Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: Capital Projects 2015-2016 $6,550,000 2016-2017 $2,378,802,600 2017-2018 $128,278,500.
Full summary can be found in miscellaneous documents. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - Line items vetoed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB303.htm |
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| HB309 | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (COMBS, LESLIE; Overly, Sannie; Adkins, Rocky; Bell, Johnny; Clark, Larry; DeCesare, Jim; Denham, Mike; Donohue, Jeffery; Heath, Richard; Horlander, Dennis; Imes, Kenny; Keene, Dennis; McKee, Thomas; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Rader, Marie; Richards, Jody; Shell, Jonathan; Stumbo, Greg; Thompson, Tommy; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 45A.030 and 45A.075 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A, the Kentucky Model Procurement Code, to provide an explicit framework for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) as an alternative method of procurement, construction, and financing of capital projects and services by state government; define terms and establish procedures; require the promulgation of administrative regulations relating to P3 procurement; establish certain oversight, reporting, and General Assembly authorization requirements; amend KRS 65.025 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to similarly provide an explicit framework for the use of P3s as an alternative method of procurement by local governments; define terms and establish procedures; establish the Kentucky Local Government Public-Private Partnership Board and require its review and approval of certain P3 agreements proposed by local governments; amend KRS 175B.005, 175B.010, 175B.020, 175B.025 175B.030, 175B.035, 175B.040, 175B.045 and 175B.095 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B to provide for the use of P3 procurement pursuant to that chapter as an alternative method for developing, constructing, operating and financing certain major transportation projects; define terms and amend the definition of a project to align with current federal usage; establish procedures and oversight, reporting, and General Assembly authorization requirements; make numerous conforming changes; prohibit any authority from authorizing tolls for any project involving the interstate highway system that connects the Commonwealth with the State of Ohio; EMERGENCY. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB309.htm |
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| HB318 | CHARTER SCHOOLS (RIGGS, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to charter schools.
Amend KRS 156.108 and 160.107 to change the terms "district of innovation" and "school of innovation" to "public charter district of innovation" and "public charter school of innovation." |
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| | Current Status: | 2/1/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB318.htm |
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| HB319 | GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to government contracts.
Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 45A to expand and refine the list of entities included and excluded in definition of "contracting body"; allow the Government Contract Review Committee to determine the definition of "governmental emergency"; refine the definition of "memorandum of agreement"; correct references to universities and colleges and institutions of higher education; refine the definition of "personal service contract" to eliminate the professional skill or judgment requirement and specifically include contracts for personal or professional services and group health care for public employees and exempt certain health care and hospital contracts from postsecondary research institutions; allow the committee to establish a reporting schedule for exempt personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement; exempt contracts between postsecondary research institutions relating to hospital or health care services provided by the institution, but require reporting of such contracts; require committee review of all personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement in excess of $1,000,000, except for select contracts that are exempted; exempt contracts for $40,000 and under from the request for proposals process, but require three quotes when feasible, and state that determination of feasibility may be reviewed by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or the committee; exempt contracts for $40,000 and under not requiring professional skill or judgment from routine review process, but require filing within 30 days for informational purposes; prohibit delegation of decision-making authority by secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, except with respect to institutions of higher education that have elected to implement procurement procedures in accordance with statutory authority; delete the requirement for annual reports; delineate the powers of the committee. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/29/2016 - received in House w/Letter
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB319.htm |
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| HB320 | HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING (DENHAM, MIKE; AN ACT relating to higher education funding.
Amend KRS 141.010 to allow a deduction for contributions to the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, 2025; amend KRS 164A.370 to clarify the tax treatment of refunds from participant accounts; create a new section of KRS 164A.300 to 164A.380 to specify reporting requirements for refunds from participant accounts. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/5/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB320.htm |
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| HB323 | DUAL CREDIT SCHOLARSHIPS (MEYER, RUSS A.; Mills, Terry; Crimm, Ron; Graham, Derrick; Koenig, Adam; Meredith, Michael; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish the Dual Credit Scholarship Program; define eligibility for the program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; establish a trust fund for moneys appropriated for the program; APPROPRIATION. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/23/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB323.htm |
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| HCR97 | KENTUCKY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TASKFORCE (CLARK, LARRY; Nelson, Rick; Coursey, Will; DeCesare, Jim; Dossett, Myron; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Richards, Jody; Santoro, Sal; Schamore, Dean) Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a Kentucky Workforce Development Task Force to study issues regarding workforce development and workforce education and to develop consensus recommendations concerning those issues; set forth the membership of the task force; require its final report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2016.
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| | Current Status: | 2/12/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HC97.htm |
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| HCR109 | BUDGET REFORM TASK FORCE (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Mayfield, Donna; Bechler, Lynn; Benvenuti, Robert; DeCesare, Jim; Kerr, Thomas; Rader, Marie; York, Jill) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Priorities of Government Spending and Budget Reform Task Force; direct the task force to study the priorities of government spending and budget reform and report findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 30, 2016.
Establish the Priorities of Government Spending and Budget Reform Task Force; direct the task force to study the priorities of government spending and budget reform and report findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 30, 2016. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/1/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HC109.htm |
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| HCR133 | STUDENT HARDSHIPS (STONE, WILSON; Tipton, James) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to urge Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to identify Kentucky children whose biological parents are deceased or have had their parental rights terminated due to abuse or neglect, and have been legally adopted by a blood relative or were assigned a permanent legal guardian by a court; urge the postsecondary institutions to consider those students' hardships in making admissions, scholarship, and grant decisions in recognition of the relief those families have provided the Commonwealth.
Urge Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to identify Kentucky children whose biological parents are deceased or have had their parental rights terminated due to abuse or neglect, and have been legally adopted by a blood relative or were assigned a permanent legal guardian by a court; urge the postsecondary institutions to consider those students' hardships in making admissions, scholarship, and grant decisions in recognition of the relief those families have provided the Commonwealth. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HC133.htm |
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| HJR100 | LOTTERY FUNDS (KAY II, JAMES; Graham, Derrick; Harris, Chris; Howard, Cluster; Nelson, Rick) A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the prohibiting of the General Assembly from diverting funds from the lottery.
Require the General Assembly to appropriate lottery funds as prescribed by KRS 154A.130; prohibit the General Assembly from notwithstanding the statute in order to transfer those funds for other purposes. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/9/2016 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HJ100.htm |
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| HR93 | KENTUCKY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH (GRAHAM, DERRICK; A RESOLUTION to recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education month.
recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education month. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/9/2016 - adopted by voice vote
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HR93.htm |
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| SB1 | PUBLIC EDUCATION (WILSON, MIKE; Givens, David P.; Girdler, Chris; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to public education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 156.557 to require schools districts to develop and implement a professional growth and effectiveness system based on a statewide framework; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from imposing reporting requirements related to the system on local districts; prohibit the system from using student growth data in the system; require the local school board to adopt guidelines for its superintendent to use in implementing the system; require evaluations annually for teachers who have not attained continuing service status and every three years for teachers with continuing service status, principals, and assistant principals; and prohibit evaluation results from being included in school accountability; amend KRS 156.160 to allow a foreign language course, career and technical education course, or a computer technology or programming course to meet the arts and humanities requirement for high school graduation; amend KRS 158.305 to require the Department of Education to provide assistance in implementing a response-to-intervention system if requested by a local district; amend KRS 158.645 to expand sufficient grounding in the arts to include specific coursework application experience; amend KRS 158.6453 to implement a process for reviewing academic standards and assessments; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations for the administration of the process; delete program reviews and audits from the statewide assessment system; delete social studies from the statewide assessment requirements; require a college admissions and placement exam to be given in the fall of grade nine and require the Kentucky Department of Education to pay for it; prohibit norm-referenced exams from being used as a measure of academic growth; and delete provisions regarding WorkKeys assessments; amend KRS 158.6455 to delete program reviews and college admissions and placement exams from the accountability system; require school improvement results to look at growth over three years as compared to similar schools; include progress toward English proficiency, quality of school climate and safety, high school graduation rates, and postsecondary readiness in the accountability system; require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to annually compile a list of industry-recognized certifications; require the Kentucky Department of Education to pay for the cost of initial assessments taken to achieve industry-recognized certifications; prohibit scores of certain exceptional children or youth from being included in a school's accountability scores; and amend the criteria for schools and districts receiving consequences and assistance under regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education; amend KRS 158.649 to requires schools to set achievement gap targets every three years and require reporting to the commissioner of education when gap reductions do not occur in three years; amend KRS 158.782 to change the criteria for the Kentucky Board of Education providing highly skilled education assistance to schools and districts; amend KRS 158.805 to allow Commonwealth school improvement funds to be used for personnel costs; amend KRS 158.840 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring intervention reporting except in certain circumstances; amend KRS 160.345 to delete language regarding principal replacement; amend KRS 160.346 to add definitions for focus school, initial intervention school, and priority school and add provisions for each; define and describe a turnaround audit and intervention process for priority schools; delete provisions pertaining to current school audit process; delete the current intervention options approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; require schools that meet certain criteria to participate in an intervention option approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; require schools that are not successful under the current audit and intervention process to implement the turnaround audit and intervention process; and allow a district that has success with the turnaround intervention process to implement it in other priority schools; amend KRS 158.6458, 158.6459, 160.107, and 164.7874 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/22/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB1.htm |
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| SB9 | PREVAILING WAGE (SCHRODER, WIL; McDaniel, Christian; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Hornback, Paul; Robinson, Albert; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.
Amend KRS 337.010 to exclude the construction of educational buildings and facilities from the definition of "public works" and from meeting the requirements of the prevailing wage law. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - House Labor and Industry, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB9.htm |
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| SB9 | PREVAILING WAGE (SCHRODER, WIL; McDaniel, Christian; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Hornback, Paul; Robinson, Albert; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.
Amend KRS 337.010 to exclude the construction of educational buildings and facilities from the definition of "public works" and from meeting the requirements of the prevailing wage law. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - House Labor and Industry, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB9.htm |
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| SB15 | EXPRESSION (ROBINSON, ALBERT; Wilson, Mike; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Carpenter, Jared; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Humphries, Stan; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to the expression of religious and political viewpoints in public schools and public post-secondary institutions.
Amend KRS 158.183 to permit students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination; require local boards of education to ensure that the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpoint-neutral manner, the student's prepared remarks are not altered before delivery without student's consent, religious and political organizations are allowed equal access to public forums on the same basis as nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations, no recognized religious or political student organization is discriminated against in the ordering of its internal affairs; allow students to display religious messages on items of clothing, access public school facilities during noninstructional time as a religious student organization, use school media to announce student religious meetings, and meet as a religious student group during noninstructional time and before and after school to the same extent as students undertaking such actions in a nonreligious manner, permit public schools to sponsor artistic or theatrical programs that advance students' knowledge of society's cultural and religious heritage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow a teacher to teach about religion with the use of the Bible or other scripture without providing religious instruction, and to teach about religious holidays in a secular manner; amend KRS 158.186 to require annual notification to local school boards, school-based decision making councils, and certified employees of statutes pertaining to religious freedom and expression in schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary education institution governing boards to ensure that students are permitted to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in assignments free from discrimination, the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpoint-neutral manner, the student's prepared remarks are not altered before delivery without student's consent, religious and political organizations are allowed equal access to public forums on the same basis as nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations, no recognized religious or political student organization is discriminated against in the ordering of its internal affairs, and there are no restrictions on speech that occurs outdoors on campus and is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, except for restrictions that are reasonable, justified without reference to speech content, narrowly tailored to serve governmental interest, and limited to provide alternative options for the communication of the information. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB15.htm |
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| SB15 | EXPRESSION (ROBINSON, ALBERT; Wilson, Mike; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Carpenter, Jared; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Humphries, Stan; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to the expression of religious and political viewpoints in public schools and public post-secondary institutions.
Amend KRS 158.183 to permit students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination; require local boards of education to ensure that the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpoint-neutral manner, the student's prepared remarks are not altered before delivery without student's consent, religious and political organizations are allowed equal access to public forums on the same basis as nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations, no recognized religious or political student organization is discriminated against in the ordering of its internal affairs; allow students to display religious messages on items of clothing, access public school facilities during noninstructional time as a religious student organization, use school media to announce student religious meetings, and meet as a religious student group during noninstructional time and before and after school to the same extent as students undertaking such actions in a nonreligious manner, permit public schools to sponsor artistic or theatrical programs that advance students' knowledge of society's cultural and religious heritage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow a teacher to teach about religion with the use of the Bible or other scripture without providing religious instruction, and to teach about religious holidays in a secular manner; amend KRS 158.186 to require annual notification to local school boards, school-based decision making councils, and certified employees of statutes pertaining to religious freedom and expression in schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary education institution governing boards to ensure that students are permitted to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in assignments free from discrimination, the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpoint-neutral manner, the student's prepared remarks are not altered before delivery without student's consent, religious and political organizations are allowed equal access to public forums on the same basis as nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations, no recognized religious or political student organization is discriminated against in the ordering of its internal affairs, and there are no restrictions on speech that occurs outdoors on campus and is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, except for restrictions that are reasonable, justified without reference to speech content, narrowly tailored to serve governmental interest, and limited to provide alternative options for the communication of the information. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB15.htm |
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| SB32 | FINANCIAL LITERACY (PARRETT, DENNIS; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to financial literacy.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop and implement the Kentucky Financial Literacy Program; require a high school student to complete instruction in financial literacy, included within the existing curriculum, prior to graduation. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB32.htm |
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| SB52 | ALTERNATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS (WISE, MAX; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Parrett, Dennis; Ridley, Dorsey; Robinson, Albert; Webb, Robin L.; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to alternative certification programs.
Amend KRS 161.048 to allow a veteran with a bachelor's degree in any area to be issued a provisional teaching certificate if other criteria are met. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/25/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB14.htm |
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| SB72 | INTERIM APPROPRIATION PROCEDURES (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Seum, Dan; Stivers, Robert) AN ACT relating to interim appropriation procedures.
Amend KRS 48.630 to clarify the process for interim appropriation increases relating to restricted funds and federal funds. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/26/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB72.htm |
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| SB75 | TUITION AND FEES (SEUM, DAN; Girdler, Chris; Schickel, John) AN ACT relating to tuition and fees for postsecondary education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.020 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to limit tuition for resident students at the public postsecondary education institutions to the 2015-2016 tuition level for four years; require tuition increases for resident students following the 2019-2020 academic year to be determined in consultation with the General Assembly; amend KRS 164.400 to require the boards of regents and trustees of state colleges and universities to limit incidental fees for resident students to the 2015-2016 level of fees for four years; EMERGENCY. |
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| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB75.htm |
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| SB81 | MILITARY CONNECTED STUDENTS (WESTERFIELD, WHITNEY; Parrett, Dennis) AN ACT relating to military connected students.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to develop a military-connected student identifier in the student information system; direct the Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for the creation and maintenance of the military-connected student identifier. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/16/2016 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB81.htm |
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| SB94 | PREVAILING WAGE (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Schroder, Wil) AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.
Create a new section of KRS 337.505 to 337.550 to allow local governments and special purpose governmental entities to opt out of prevailing wage requirements for public works. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/15/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB94.htm |
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| SB107 | COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMS (GIVENS, DAVID P.; Westerfield, Whitney; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to computer science programs in public schools.
Amend KRS 156.095 to allow teacher academies to include developing disciplines, developing beyond the core including computer sciences; amend KRS 156.553 to include computer science teachers as eligible for teachers' professional growth funds; amend KRS 156.670 to require the master plan for education technology to include network capacity and the readiness of laboratories for computer science education; amend KRS 158.846 to include computer sciences as a key area of the knowledge-based economy; amend KRS 158.847 to allow the science and mathematics advancement fund to provide grants to local school districts to develop and implement computer science programs; amend KRS 161.048 to include persons with computer science expertise among those eligible for adjunct instructor certification. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB107.htm |
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| SB127 | KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP (WISE, MAX; Humphries, Stan; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Givens, David P.; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors, beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors, beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year, to use their KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; require that the funds they would have received as eligible postsecondary students be reduced proportionally over a four, or in some cases, five year period by an amount equal to the amount used for dual credit; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform; designate the expenditures as necessary governmental expenses if KEES funds appropriated for fiscal year 2017-2018 is not adequate; APPROPRIATION. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/1/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB127.htm |
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| SB129 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (HARRIS, ERNIE; AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Amend KRS 13A.010 to change the defined term "government" to "local government" and to establish a definition for "written comments"; amend KRS 13A.020 to provide that a monthly meeting may be rescheduled, rather than canceled, by agreement of both co-chairs; amend KRS 13A.040 to clarify that an administrative body may submit a written request for a technical amendment and provide examples of technical amendments, rather than a complete list; require the regulations compiler to refuse to accept for filing administrative regulations that do not comply with specified requirements for emergency administrative regulations, statements of consideration, and amended-after-comments versions; amend KRS 13A.050 to correct the name of the Administrative Register of Kentucky; amend KRS 13A.070 to authorize, rather than require, the LRC to promulgate administrative regulations; delete the requirement that the regulations compiler refuse to accept any administrative regulation that does not conform to KRS Chapter 13A and the administrative regulations thereunder; specify that administrative regulations promulgated by LRC shall be signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives; amend KRS 13A.125 to require that a current proposed administrative regulation be withdrawn prior to filing a subsequent proposed administrative regulation with the same number or title; amend KRS 13A.190 to require that emergency administrative regulations be published in the Administrative Register in accordance with the publication deadline established in KRS 13A.050(3); clarify provisions governing when a subsequent emergency administrative regulation with the same number or title or governing the same subject matter may be filed; establish the filing requirements for emergency administrative regulations; amend KRS 13A.220 to require that the electronic version be filed at the same time as, or prior to, filing the paper version; require that the electronic version be saved as a single document for each administrative regulation; specify that a section shall not be divided into lower levels of division if there is only one item in that level of division; require that the contact person's information include an email address; authorize administrative bodies to file letters and notifications electronically with the regulations compiler; amend KRS 13A.221 to require that, before filing an administrative regulation, an administrative body review the entire administrative regulation for compliance with KRS Chapter 13A and current law governing the subject matter of the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.222 to require that all changes made to the text of an existing administrative regulation be marked with new words underlined and deleted words struck through and placed in brackets; establish requirements for definitions in administrative regulations; remove the prohibition against using the phrase "at the time" in an administrative regulation; authorize the use of "et seq." in citations; require that citations accompany only the first usage of a popular name in an administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.2251 to require that the incorporation-by-reference section of an administrative regulation state the regular office hours of the administrative body, rather than the set times of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; amend KRS 13A.2255 to establish the process for amending material previously incorporated by reference; amend KRS 13A.230 to require that the electronic version of an administrative regulation be filed at the same as, or prior to, filing the paper version; require that the electronic version be saved as a single document for each administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.240 to require the regulatory impact analysis to state the administrative regulation's number and the contact person's name, e-mail address, and telephone number; delete the requirement that the LRC prepare a written analysis of all regulatory impact analyses and administrative regulations; amend KRS 13A.250 and KRS 13A.255 to require inclusion of each contact person's name, e-mail address, and telephone number in the fiscal note and notification regarding fees; amend KRS 13A.270 to specify that the comment period shall end at 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the calendar month in which the administrative regulation is published in the Administrative Register, rather than having the end of the comment period dependent on whether the last day is a workday or a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday; require that the contact information include the contact person's e-mail address; clarify that the provisions for notification if a government may be impacted by an administrative regulation apply for local government, impact not both state and local government impact; delete the requirement that administrative bodies telephone the regulations compiler about the holding or canceling of public hearings and whether public comments were received; amend KRS 13A.280 to specify the filing requirements for a statement of consideration and an amended-after-comments version; amend KRS 13A.290 to require that ARRS review of an administrative regulation include the entire administrative regulation and all attachments filed with the administrative regulation; delete the requirement that a copy of the minutes of each meeting be sent to the promulgating administrative body; require that referrals to the second committee be made on the first Wednesday of the following month instead of at the next regularly scheduled LRC meeting; establish the voting requirements at the second committee level in order to amend an administrative regulation or find an administrative regulation deficient; amend KRS 13A.300 to establish requirements for deferring an administrative regulation scheduled for review at the second committee level; amend KRS 13A.310 to establish the effective date of a repealing administrative regulation if the repealer states an effective date that is after the normal effective date for an administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.312 to specify that the regulations compiler shall alter administrative regulations pursuant to a statutory change or executive order after receipt of a written request from an administrative body; amend KRS 13A.315 to require that an administrative regulation expire if the statement of consideration and, if applicable, the amended-after-comments version not filed before a specified deadline, rather than requiring expiration if any item is not filed before a deadline; amend KRS 13A.320 to establish requirements for amendments made at a subcommittee meeting; amend KRS 13A.100, 13A.110, 13A.120, 13A.130, 13A.180, 13A.200, and 13A.224 to make technical corrections; and repeal KRS 13A.075 and 13A.140, relating to promulgation of administrative regulations. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/9/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB129.htm |
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| SB132 | PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (WISE, MAX; Ridley, Dorsey) AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 45A.030 and 45A.075 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A, the Kentucky Model Procurement Code, to provide an explicit framework for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) as an alternative method of procurement, construction, and financing of capital projects and services by state government; define terms and establish procedures; require the promulgation of administrative regulations relating to P3 procurement; establish certain oversight, reporting, and General Assembly authorization requirements; amend KRS 65.025 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to similarly provide an explicit framework for the use of P3s as an alternative method of procurement by local governments; define terms and establish procedures; establish the Kentucky Local Government Public-Private Partnership Board and require its review and approval of certain P3 agreements proposed by local governments; amend KRS 175B.005, 175B.010, 175B.020, 175B.025 175B.030, 175B.035, 175B.040, 175B.045 and 175B.095 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B to provide for the use of P3 procurement pursuant to that chapter as an alternative method for developing, constructing, operating and financing certain major transportation projects; define terms and amend the definition of a project to align with current federal usage; establish procedures and oversight, reporting, and General Assembly authorization requirements; make numerous conforming changes; prohibit any authority from authorizing tolls for any project involving the interstate highway system that connects the Commonwealth with the State of Ohio; EMERGENCY. |
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| | Current Status: | 3/18/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB132.htm |
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| SB133 | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF COLLEGES (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to Chief Executive Officers of colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop an evaluation process to be used by the local board of directors to evaluate a college's chief executive officer; amend KRS 164.600 to require the local board of directors of a community or technical college to select and evaluate the college's chief executive officer. |
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| | Current Status: | 2/25/2016 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB133.htm |
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| SB140 | INTERSTATE DISTANCE EDUCATION (WISE, MAX; Wilson, Mike; Neal, Gerald A.) AN ACT relating to interstate distance education among post-secondary institutions.
Amend 164.540 to authorize the Council on Postsecondary Education to enter into the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, for the purpose of authorizing a postsecondary institution located in another state to provide distance education to Kentucky residents; serve as the lead or "portal" agency responsible for contact with other states on matters pertaining to interstate reciprocity agreements; promulgate administrative regulations. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB140.htm |
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| SR101 | CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH (GIVENS, DAVID P.; Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education Month.
Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education Month. |
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| | Current Status: | 4/15/2016 - adopted by voice vote
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SR101.htm |
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