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Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 605, relating to juvenile proceedings, to require social service workers, child protective services workers, peace officers, and others interviewing a child alleged to be abused, needy, neglected, dependent, or delinquent to make a video or audio recording of the interview; specify to whom recordings of interviews are available; limit uses of recordings of interviews; provide for destruction of recordings when no longer needed.
Also tagged in: Courts, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Fire Prevention, Fire Prevention, Housing, Building, and Construction, Licensing, Occupations and Professions, Purchasing, State Agencies Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend KRS 198B.020 to add a new member representing the Kentucky Building Material Association to the Board of Housing, Buildings and Construction.
Also tagged in: Associations, Associations, Commerce, Commerce, Contracts, Contracts, Financial Responsibility, Notices, Notices, Sales, Trade Practices and Retailing
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 172) Bill Text
Amend KRS 367.397 to allow a buying club or vacation club member to cancel his or her membership in writing for a full refund within three business days rather than thirty business days; make the three day cancellation deadline follow the date the membership contract was signed rather than the date membership was attained; delete prorated refund for cancellations after thirty business days; amend KRS 367.399 to remove the prorated refund provision from the mandatory contract text; included a prominent disclosure of the three-day deadline at the beginning of the required "Members' Right to Cancel" text.
Also tagged in: Advertising, Associations, Associations, Charitable Organizations and Institutions, Commerce, Commerce, Counties, Local Mandate, Small Business, Small Business, Trade Practices and Retailing
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS 367.170 to 367.300 to require that a for-profit organization that collects donated items for future resale permanently affix to the bin or receptacle the name and the telephone or email address of the collector and a statement indicating that the person collecting is not a charity; make a violation of this section an unlawful act under KRS 367.170; grant the county attorney concurrent jurisdiction in enforcing provision of this section; require bins to comply with applicable zoning laws.
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - To Banking & Insurance (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to provide that if payment on a cardholder's open-end credit card account is delivered by the United States Postal Service to the payee, the payment shall be deemed received by the payee on the date of the U.S. postmark stamped on the envelope or other cover in which the payment is mailed if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 365.250 to require dealers, collectors, and vendors to keep a register of those from whom they purchase ferrous or nonferrous metal or material containing ferrous or nonferrous metal; specify information to be included in the register; require dealers, collectors, and vendors to report the information kept in the register to the applicable law enforcement agency; amend KRS 365.990 relating to penalties to conform.
Also tagged in: Attorney General, Cities, Corrections Impact, Counties, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Effective Dates, Delayed, Fiscal Note, Immigration, Jails and Jailers, Labor and Industry, Local Mandate, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Piggybacked Bills, Police, City and County, Police, State, Sheriffs, State Agencies, Title Amendments, Trade Practices and Retailing, United States
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to create definitions related to identity theft; restrict certain uses by businesses of a consumer's Social Security number subject to certain exceptions, to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009, and to make a violation subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to give specified notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; declare that the provisions regarding business use [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; re Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS 286.7-410 to 286.7-600 to define "affiliate," "commercial activity," and "industrial loan company" and to prohibit commercial activity by an industrial loan company affiliate or to prohibit an industrial loan company which is an affiliate of a company that engages in commercial activity from maintaining an office on the property of the affiliate.
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Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit unsolicited faxes to a telephone facsimile machine; define telephone facsimile machine, unsolicited advertisement by a telephone facsimile machine, and established business relationship; provide exception for an established business relationship between the sender and recipient; require that fax transmissions contain an opt-out procedure for recipient; provide for a private cause of action in District or Circuit Court; amend KRS 367.46951 to conform; amend KRS 367.990 to impose a maximum penalty of $500 for each violation, except that the penalty for a willful violation shall be not more than $2,000.
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to define the terms "motor vehicle renting company," vehicle license cost," and "vehicle license cost recovery fee"; require that if a vehicle license cost recovery fee is charged on a rental transaction, the fee shall be a good-faith estimate of company's daily charge to recover its vehicle licensing cost; provide that if the vehicle cost recovery fees collected in a calendar year exceed the actual vehicle licensing costs, then the company shall retain the excess and adjust the following year's fees accordingly; clarify that there is not a prohibition against a company from including or making adjustments to a fee charged during the calendar year.
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Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To State Government (H) Bill Text
Direct the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to set up a single, toll-free consumer information hotline and advertise financial, insurance, and long-term care consumer products.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Posted in committee Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to create definitions; to restrict certain uses by agencies of a person’s Social Security number and prohibit the inclusion of a person’s Social Security number in documents filed or recorded with an agency, subject to certain exceptions, and to establish a procedure to request redaction of a Social Security number shown in official records on an agency’s Internet Web site subject to certain exceptions, and to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009; to require an agency to give notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to require an agency to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions; to declare that the provisions regarding use of Social Security numbers, security breach notices, and safeguarding against security breaches do not limit the power to enforce criminal or civil statutes or the [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Attorney General, Cities, Corrections Impact, Counties, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Effective Dates, Delayed, Fiscal Note, Immigration, Jails and Jailers, Labor and Industry, Local Mandate, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Piggybacked Bills, Police, City and County, Police, State, Sheriffs, State Agencies, Title Amendments, Trade Practices and Retailing, United States
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to create definitions related to identity theft; restrict certain uses by businesses of a consumer's Social Security number subject to certain exceptions, to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009, and to make a violation subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to give specified notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; declare that the provisions regarding business use [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Advertising, Associations, Associations, Charitable Organizations and Institutions, Commerce, Commerce, Counties, Local Mandate, Small Business, Small Business, Trade Practices and Retailing
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS 367.170 to 367.300 to require that a for-profit organization that collects donated items for future resale permanently affix to the bin or receptacle the name and the telephone or email address of the collector and a statement indicating that the person collecting is not a charity; make a violation of this section an unlawful act under KRS 367.170; grant the county attorney concurrent jurisdiction in enforcing provision of this section; require bins to comply with applicable zoning laws.
Also tagged in: Associations, Associations, Commerce, Commerce, Contracts, Contracts, Financial Responsibility, Notices, Notices, Sales, Trade Practices and Retailing
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 172) Bill Text
Amend KRS 367.397 to allow a buying club or vacation club member to cancel his or her membership in writing for a full refund within three business days rather than thirty business days; make the three day cancellation deadline follow the date the membership contract was signed rather than the date membership was attained; delete prorated refund for cancellations after thirty business days; amend KRS 367.399 to remove the prorated refund provision from the mandatory contract text; included a prominent disclosure of the three-day deadline at the beginning of the required "Members' Right to Cancel" text.
Latest Action: 02/11/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 438.313 to prohibit a person from purchasing on behalf of or giving tobacco products and cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age; establish a fine of $500 to $1000 for violations; amend 438.315 to prohibit a vending machine containing tobacco products to sell nontobacco products, except for matches.
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - To Banking & Insurance (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to provide that if payment on a cardholder's open-end credit card account is delivered by the United States Postal Service to the payee, the payment shall be deemed received by the payee on the date of the U.S. postmark stamped on the envelope or other cover in which the payment is mailed if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to define the terms "motor vehicle renting company," vehicle license cost," and "vehicle license cost recovery fee"; require that if a vehicle license cost recovery fee is charged on a rental transaction, the fee shall be a good-faith estimate of company's daily charge to recover its vehicle licensing cost; provide that if the vehicle cost recovery fees collected in a calendar year exceed the actual vehicle licensing costs, then the company shall retain the excess and adjust the following year's fees accordingly; clarify that there is not a prohibition against a company from including or making adjustments to a fee charged during the calendar year.
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