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HB54

HB54 Sponsored by Brent Yonts
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Education

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require counseling for tenth-grade students related to choosing an academic or career and technical track; amend KRS 156.160 to provide that the Kentucky Board of Education shall arrange the courses of study in an academic track and a career and technical track; amend KRS 158.6453 to require that the state assessments not be given prior to the first week of May of each school year.

HB21

HB21 Sponsored by Jim Wayne
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government

Bill Text
Create Kentucky State Use Commission; establish duties and membership of State Use Commission; amend KRS 45A.470 to define the Kentucky State Use Commission and qualified nonprofit agency or work center serving the blind or severely disabled; amend KRS 45A.470 to require the purchase of goods and services from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled and designate the Kentucky State Use Commission as agency providing purchasing information to governmental agencies; amend KRS 45A.080, 45A.085, 45A.095, and 45A.100 to require that state governmental purchases be made from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled; create a new section of KRS 141 to define terms; establish a nonrefundable community rehabilitation credit program; establish maximum amount of credit allowed per corporation per tax year; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credit is applied against [...]

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HB65

HB65 Sponsored by Brent Yonts
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Seniors, Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to establish the Kentucky Medal for Freedom award for soldiers killed on or after October 7, 2001, who had ties to Kentucky.
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H)

Bill Text
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to include speech therapists, occupational therapists, and special education teachers in the definition of behavioral health professionals for purposes of IMPACT Plus services.

HB465

HB465 Sponsored by Tom McKee
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - Floor amendment (3) filed

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Amend KRS 257.010 to define "abandon," "reportable," "communicable disease," and "livestock"; amend KRS 257.020 to add poultry, fish, and animal industries to Board of Agriculture's enforcement duties; amend KRS 257.030 to denote scope of agency cooperation; clarify state veterinarian's powers in animal confinement and transport; amend KRS 257.040 to prohibit possession or transportation of an animal with a reportable disease; amend KRS 257.050 to include poultry and fish in quarantine violation prohibition; amend KRS 257.060 and 257.070 to clarify permit requirement for diseased animals brought into state and establish the board's jurisdiction in removing quarantined animals from state; amend KRS 257.080 to add a laboratory to those subject to diseased animal reporting requirements and require department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding reportable diseases; amend KRS 257.100 to give a board agent the power to destroy an animal; amend KRS 257.105 to add identification [...]

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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158, relating to conduct of schools, to require placement of automated external defibrillators athletic buildings and availability of automated external defibrillators at athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156, relating to boards of education, to require the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the defibrillator program; amend KRS 311.667, relating to automated external defibrillators, to remove the physician oversight requirement; amend KRS 311.668 to conform.
Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - To Education (H)

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and implement the Kentucky Financial Literacy Program; permit school districts to utilize the program and program materials; require the program to include curricula, materials, and guidelines for financial literacy instruction aligned with state standards and designed to be included in courses currently offered in public schools; require the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt the curricula, materials, and guidelines for the program; set forth areas of financial literacy to be included in the program; establish the Kentucky financial literacy trust fund within the State Treasury; permit the fund to receive state appropriations, gifts, grants, federal funds, and any other funds, both public and private; identify permissible fund uses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Kentucky Department of Education to administer the trust fund; [...]

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Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations (S)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 317A.060 to remove requirements for administrative regulation addressing the number of licenses issued.

HB541

HB541 Sponsored by Tom Burch
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed

Bill Text
Amend KRS 217.215 to allow a pharmacist to dispense up to a 30-day supply of a maintenance drug in emergency situations; amend KRS 315.010 to redefine "collaborative care agreement" to include multiple practitioners and multiple patients; create new sections of KRS Chapter 315 to define "enhanced pharmacy-related primary care" as additional acts by trained pharmacists certified by the Board of Pharmacy to provide enhanced pharmacy-related primary care, including authority to issue nonscheduled legend drugs; require the board to establish an Enhanced Pharmacy-related Primary Care Advisory Committee; specify membership; require administrative regulations to specify scope of practice, diseases and conditions that may be treated, approval of course of study and clinical experience required for certification, terms of a collaborative agreement; amend KRS 217.015 to include a pharmacist certified to provide enhanced pharmacy-related primary care, in the definition of "practitioner."

SB79

SB79 Sponsored by Julie Denton
Latest Action: 01/16/2008 - To Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations (S)

Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, including "authorized distributor of record," "counterfeit prescription drug," "drop shipment," "exclusive distributor," "normal distribution channel," "pedigree," "third party logistics provider," and "wholesale distributor"; require a wholesale distributor to be licensed by the board; specify conditions for a wholesale distributor to receive prescription drugs and require a manufacturer or a wholesale distributor to supply drugs only to a person licensed to possess or distribute drugs to an end user; require any wholesale distributor to provide a pedigree if the drugs were outside of the normal distribution channel and permit the Board of Pharmacy to specify the required contents of a pedigree; prohibit the board from requiring the use of an electronic track and trace system for pedigrees until the federal government establishes standard technology; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement requirements [...]

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HB764

HB764 Sponsored by Tanya Pullin
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 61.315 to establish the amount of death gratuity benefits available to the survivors of any police officer, firefighter, or member of the military killed in the line of duty, by linking it to the federal death gratuity amount; provide that the state will pay this amount if the survivors are not eligible for payments from the federal government; provide that the amount apportioned to any surviving children less that 18 years of age shall be partially placed in trust; direct the Department of Military Affairs to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the death gratuity; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2009.

HB738

HB738 Sponsored by John Tilley
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Education (H)

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS 157.200 to 157.290 to require that by the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, students entering the first year of the primary program shall be tested for dyslexia and other related disorders according to administrative regulations adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education; require local school districts to provide appropriate instruction and professional development for students with dyslexia or related disorders; amend KRS 157.200 to expand the definition of "specific learning disability" to include perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia define "dyslexia" and "related disorders."
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 117)

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 252 to establish the Kentucky beekeeping fund in the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 252.190 to set out departmental regulatory duties.

SB240

SB240 Sponsored by Julie Denton
Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - Taken from the Consent Orders of the Day; recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to provide for the certification of personal service agencies; define the terms "agency," "cabinet," "client," "department," "designated representative," "family," "personal services," "personal services agency"; and, "parent personal services agency"; require a personal services agency to be certified; require the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations; require personal services agencies to have written policies and procedures maintained by the agency and disclosed to the client, written personal service agreements, and written personal services plans; qualify that only personal services agencies meeting standards for certification will be granted a certificate; require each application for certification to be made to the department, accompanied by a fee, and to expire one year from the date of its receipt; require renewals to be accompanied by an additional fee; require the personal services [...]

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SB225

SB225 Sponsored by Dan Kelly
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To State & Local Government (S)

Bill Text
Amend 11.501 relating to the Commonwealth Office of Technology to change "must" to "shall."
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Received in House; to Seniors, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 40.325 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to operate veterans' nursing homes.

HB2

HB2 Sponsored by Rocky Adkins
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 139)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 56.770 to define "cabinet," "high-performance building," "high-performance building standards," and "public building"; amend KRS 56.772, 56.774, 56.775, 56.778, 56.783, and 56.784 to conform; amend KRS 56.775 to require that all construction or renovation of public buildings for which 50% or more of the total capital cost is paid by the Commonwealth be designed and constructed or renovated to meet the high-performance building standards; require that all buildings leased by the Commonwealth or any of its agencies meet the high-performance building standards; require incorporation of ENERGY STAR-qualified products to the extent feasible; create a new section of KRS 56.770 to 56.784 to create a High-performance Buildings Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Finance and Administration Cabinet; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations and develop standards and criteria; amend KRS 56.782 to require the Finance and Administration [...]

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SB203

SB203 Sponsored by Tom Jensen
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 116)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 247.232 to amend the definitions of "amusement attraction" and "owner"; amend KRS 247.234 to require owners of amusement rides and attractions to complete an application for a business identification number, conduct pre-opening inspections and tests of amusement rides and attractions each day the ride or attraction is to be operated, and maintain records of the inspections and tests; allow the Commissioner to revoke the business identification number of any owner who fails to conduct the inspections and tests; amend KRS 247.236 to prohibit amusement rides and attractions from being operated if an owner knows the operation would be unsafe; prohibit anyone who is under the influence of alcohol or other substance or who is younger than 18 from operating an amusement ride or attraction; allow an owner or operator to deny a person from getting on an amusement ride or attraction if the owner or operator has reason to believe that person may jeopardize his safety or others' safety; create [...]

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Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 179)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 156.4975 to define health services; amend KRS 156.4977 to permit a supplemental grant program managed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to fund employment of a physician or nurse in a family resource or youth services center; specify the grant program may receive appropriations, gifts, or other contributions and shall not reduce the amount of the family resource youth services center grants.

HB637

HB637 Sponsored by Mike Denham
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S)

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to restrict drug use on noncaptive wildlife; amend KRS 150.025 to provide greater flexibility with regard to publishing and notification of proposed changes to administrative regulations; amend KRS 150.175 to allow selling short-term hunting licenses to Kentucky residents; amend KRS 150.179 to provide the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources with greater flexibility in providing complimentary licenses for programs conducted by entities that are not sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.