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HB207

HB207 Sponsored by Jim Gooch
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to design and distribute an "In God We Trust" license plate; provide that the license plate be regularly issued in addition to the license plate required by KRS 186.240; establish the license plate design; authorize the license plate be issued at the request of the owner of a passenger vehicle, pick-up truck, or recreational vehicle upon payment of the appropriate fees; amend KRS 186.240 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2009.
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Transportation (H)

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to design and distribute an "In God We Trust" license plate; establish that the license plate be regularly issued in addition to the license plate required by KRS 186.240; establish the license plate design; authorize the license plate be issued at the request of the owner of a passenger vehicle; pick-up truck, or recreational vehicle upon payment of the appropriate fees; amend KRS 186.240 to conform; effective January 1, 2009.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 143)

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Amend KRS 132.480 to require the property valuation administrator to update his or her address records to capture the in-care-of address; amend KRS 133.220 to require the property valuation administrator to consider the in-care-of address when notices are returned as undeliverable; and amend KRS 382.135 to require that a deed to real property include a statement indicating the in-care-of address to which the property tax bill may be sent.

HB390

HB390 Sponsored by Fred Nesler
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

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Amend KRS 138.130 to define "untax-paid cigarettes"; amend KRS 138.165 to require the Department of Revenue to promulgate an administrative regulation setting forth a protest and appeals procedure; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Reassigned to Judiciary (S)

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Amend KRS 15.380 to require certain correctional officers employed by local governments to be certified as peace officers, amend KRS 15.400 to grandfather existing correctional officers; amend KRS 15.420 to exclude correctional officers from the definition of police officer as applicable to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund.
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S)

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Amend KRS 139.110 to exclude from the definition of "retailer" auctioneers that make sales at charitable auctions; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Posted in committee

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Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt genus camelus from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.

HB262

HB262 Sponsored by Jim Wayne
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - Received in House; to Rules (H); posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) and (2)

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Amend KRS 141.020 to increase the tax rate on income over $75,000; amend KRS 141.066 to establish a refundable earned income tax credit at 15 percent of the federal credit; amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from the federal estate tax phase-out; amend KRS 139.120, 139.200, and 139.480 to include a list of selected services as subject to sales tax; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize changes to income tax credits; make income tax provisions effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, make estate tax provisions effective for deaths on or after August 1, 2008; make sales tax provisions effective for billings on or after August 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 01/08/2008 - Introduced in House; to Appropriations & Revenue (H)

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Amend KRS 139.050 to exempt delivery charges from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.

HB472

HB472 Sponsored by Steve Riggs
Latest Action: 02/07/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 139.472 to exempt durable medical equipment including repair and replacement parts from sales and use tax; define terms; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.

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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.

HB726

HB726 Sponsored by Carl Rollins
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee

Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to create definitions, to require the Secretary of State to promulgate regulations and confer with the county board of elections; to require the county board of elections to make a report to LRC and to the Secretary of State.
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - Posting waived

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Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to provide for comprehensive statutory coverage of notaries public, including provisions relating to the purpose of the regulation, definitions, commissioning, applications, electronic notarizations, bonding, privacy, notarial authority, notarial prohibitions, fees, journals and record keeping, notarization forms, signing by mark, official seals, seal vendors, verification of notarial authority, resignations, deaths, misconduct, liability, notarial crimes, and grandfathering; provide for a delayed effective date of March 1, 2009; amend KRS 423.010, 423.110, and 423.200 to conform; repeal KRS 64.300, 423.020, 423.050, 423.130, 423.140, 423.150, 423.160, 423.170, 423.180, 423.190, and 423.990.

SB199

SB199 Sponsored by Ray S. Jones
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 55)

Bill Text
Amend sections of KRS Chapter 342 to adopt the fifth edition, rather than the most recent edition, of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.

HB638

HB638 Sponsored by John Tilley
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 156)

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 324, relating to real estate brokers, to allow an out-of-state broker to practice in Kentucky relative to commercial real estate through a cooperation agreement with a Kentucky real estate broker; define "commercial real estate," "cooperation agreement"; "Kentucky cooperating broker," "out-of-state principal broker," and "out-of-state licensee," require that out-of-state licensees be licensed with and work under the direct supervision of an out-of-state principal broker; set out minimum contents of cooperation agreements, to include terms of compensation, description of the parties, and the start and end date of the agreement; mandate that, for transactions that fall within the scope of the cooperation agreement, out-of-state brokers work under the supervision and control of the Kentucky cooperating broker and supply the commission with an affiliation notice and insurance certification; include licensure status and other disclosures; limit types of transactions [...]

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Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 95)

Bill Text
Amend KRS 139.472 to redefine "durable medical equipment" to include a definition for "repair and replacement parts" for same; amend KRS 139.781 to define "taxability matrix"; amend KRS 139.795 to limit purchaser's liability if based upon erroneous data provided by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 139.110 include various definitions found throughout Chapter 139; amend KRS 139.025, 139.210, 139.215, 139.240,139.340, 139.470, 139.486, 139.518, 139.536, 139.538, 139.735, 139.990, 68.200, 132.200, and 154.27-070 to conform; repeal KRS 139.020, 139.030, 139.040, 139.050, 139.060, 139.070, 139.080, 139.090, 139.095, 139.100, 139.110, 139.120, 139.140, 139.150, 139.160, 139.170, 139.180, 139.190, 139.487, 139.488, 139.5381, 139.5382, 139.5383, 139.5384, 139.5385, 139.5386; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute

Bill Text
Repeal and reenact KRS 138.130 and 138.140; provide that the legislation shall apply to tax periods beginning on or after June 1, 2006; notwithstand the provisions of KRS 446.145 to the extent that any provision included in Section 1 or 2 of the Act is determined to be new language.

HB599

HB599 Sponsored by Adam Koenig
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)

Bill Text
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 118A to require voters in judicial elections, beginning with the election in 2014, to complete their ballots by ranking candidates in order of choice; eliminate primaries in judicial elections; require all judicial candidates to file petitions of candidacy; establish procedures for the State Board of Elections to follow in tabulating votes and determining the winners of judicial elections; repeal KRS 118A.060, 118A.080, and 118A.090, relating to judicial primaries and regular elections; EFFECTIVE IN PART ON NOVEMBER 6, 2013, AND IN PART ON JANUARY 1, 2014.

HB569

HB569 Sponsored by Don Pasley
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Posting waived

Bill Text
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax feed for the members of the genus camelus; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S)

Bill Text
Create 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 [...]

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