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Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Bill Text
Amend KRS 525.125, 525.130, and 525.135 to forfeit ownership of animals involved in cruelty and torture cases, and prohibit ownership and possession of animals of the same species for two years; establish penalties for violations; allow exception under KRS 525.130 for livestock and poultry used in the business of agriculture.
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Bill Text
Create new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require spaying or neutering of dogs and cats as a prerequisite to release from a releasing agency; define "releasing agency" and "veterinarian"; mandate spaying or neutering prior to release of a dog or cat; allow for exceptions related to health and maturity, rightful ownership, and use of cooperative agreements; declare that no local spay-neuter ordinance shall be superseded.
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 247 to define "agricultural facility," "agricultural product," and "agroterrorism"; impose penalties for committing agroterrorism; amend KRS 500.080 to define "agricultural facility," "agricultural product," and "agroterrorism"; amend KRS 512.010, 513.010, 513.060, and 527.205 to conform; repeal KRS 437.410, 437.415, 437.420, and 437.429.
Latest Action: 01/22/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a railroad to remove animal carcasses within 48 hours of being notified by an animal control officer; allow local animal control officers to go onto railroad property after the 48-hour deadline to retrieve and dispose of animal carcasses and charge the railroad company a fee of up to $250 per removal and disposal of a carcass.
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - Floor amendment (3) filed Bill TextAmend 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 [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend KRS 257.497 to establish limitations and guidelines relating to the national animal identification program.
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 258.095 to amend the definition of "Animal shelter"; amend KRS 258.195 to delete the language requiring animal shelters to meet minimum standards by July 13, 2004; create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require all animal shelters to meet minimum standards within one year of the effective date of the Act, to require animal shelters to register with the County Judge-Executive of the county in which the shelter is located, and to require all animal shelters to report the possession of any stray, unwanted, or abandoned animals to the primary animal shelter in the county.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 163) Bill Text
Reauthorize the Kentucky Aquaculture Task Force; set forth membership duties.
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Recommitted to State & Local Government (S); reported favorably, to Rules with committee amendment (1-title) ; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 3rd reading, passed 32-6 with Committee Substitute, committee a Bill Text
Amend KRS 381.697 to prohibit burial of animals in public cemeteries unless written consent is obtained from the cemetery owners or board.
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend KRS 246.250 to define "registered cattle," "pen sale cattle," "market animals," and "AOB"; update lists of cattle breeds eligible for premium and advertising funding; describe how AOBs can be funded; establish criteria for cattle breeds to be eligible for funding; require that the department promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the provisions of the section.
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Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Introduced in House; adopted by voice vote Bill Text
Authorize the Task Force on Animal Agriculture through November 30, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text
Request the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources to study the impacts of cloned meat, dairy, and poultry on agriculture and the food supply system.
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Taken from committee Agriculture & Natural Resources (S); laid on clerk's desk Bill Text
Urge the Commerce Cabinet and Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources and Subcommittee on Horse Farming on trail riding opportunities on state public lands.
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Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text
Honor and commend the Tennessee Valley Authority on its 75th Anniversary.
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 253.010 by deleting definition of "animal"; make technical corrections to subsequent sections of KRS Chapter 253.
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.
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create the Task Force on Cloned Meat, Dairy, and Poultry Products; establish duties of the task force; set membership.
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to create a Kentucky Milk Commission; describe the duties of the commission; describe the requirements of any recommended milk price regulation systems or assessments; require processors to keep records; create a Dairy Industry Fund; activate the commission only upon the receipt of sufficient funds to carry out the purposes of the Act.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to create a Kentucky Milk Commission; describe the duties of the commission; describe the requirements of any recommended milk price regulation systems or assessments; require processors to keep records; create a Dairy Industry Fund; activate the commission only upon the receipt of sufficient funds to carry out the purposes of the Act.
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 22) Bill Text
Amend KRS 148.290, authorizing the Kentucky State Horse Park commission to establish restrictions on golf cart-type vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, and horse trailers and to establish permitting and fee systems for golf cart-type vehicles and horse trailers; amend KRS 148.991 to direct the Kentucky State Horse Park executive director to enforce laws governing golf cart-type vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, and horse trailers on State Horse Park property.
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