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Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Education Bill Text
Amend 2006 Kentucky Acts Chapter 252, Part I, Operating Budget; E. Education Cabinet; 8. Career and Technical Education to direct the Education Cabinet to award raises for all certified and equivalent employees pursuant to KRS Chapter 151B that equal the same percentages and amounts that were provided local school teachers in fiscal years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 403.200 to permit a court to provide for wage attachment and automatic electronic transfer of funds for payment of spousal maintenance; amend KRS 403.270 to add healthy environment for child as a factor for the consideration of awarding custody of children; amend KRS 530.050 to add ex-spouse; EMERGENCY
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Education Bill TextCreate new section of KRS 160 to require 30 minutes per day, 150 minutes per week, or the equivalent minutes per month of structured moderate to vigorous physical activity in a minimum of 10 minute intervals beginning in the 2009-2010 school year for preschool through grade 6 and 2010-2011 for grades 7 and 8; permit the physical activity to be met through a combination of traditional classroom instruction, structured recess, and physical education; require the physical activity to be part of the existing school day and permit it to be considered part of the instructional day; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the physical activity requirement; require the department to develop a reporting mechanism for schools to report to the department on physical activities; require the department to report no later than November 1 of each year to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; amend [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Attorney General, Campaign Finance, Contracts, Corrections Impact, Elections and Voting, General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Local Mandate, Piggybacked Bills, Secretary of State, Title Amendments, Treasurer
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to define terms; require a person making an independent expenditure to report it if the amount exceeds $500 in the aggregate in any one election; establish campaign contribution limits for candidates, slates of candidates, and candidate campaign committees; establish campaign contribution limits for caucus campaign committees, political issues committees, permanent committees, and executive committees; permit the establishment of a building account; establish campaign contribution limits for inaugural committees; establish campaign contribution limits for individuals; permit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, referendum committees, and individuals to utilize on-line credit and debit card transactions; provide for reporting exemptions for any candidate, slate, or political issues committee if a form is filed stating that contributions will not be accepted or expended in excess of $5,000 in any one election; require that referendum committees [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Actuarial Analysis, Education, Elementary and Secondary, Education, Finance, Personnel and Employment, Retirement and Pensions, State Agencies, State Employees, Teachers, Universities and Colleges Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 78) Bill TextAmend KRS 61.680 to include reference to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System as one of the retirement systems in which nonelected employees may participate as appropriate; amend KRS 161.220 to specify that experience substitution clauses only apply to employees of the Kentucky Department of Education who have a four-year degree; exclude awards program from definition of "annual compensation"; amend KRS 161.310 to clarify retirement incentive; amend KRS 161.340 to require transfer of leave balances from the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System to other Executive Department agencies; amend KRS 161.480 to specify procedures for designating beneficiaries and the effect of failure to make a designation; amend KRS 161.515 to specify that out-of-state teaching service is purchasable only at full actuarial cost; indicate retirement factors for purchase of out-of-state service; amend KRS 161.520 to specify procedures for account refunds, in lieu of survivor allowances, by parents, or legal [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - To Transportation (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 235.285 to require, effective January 1, 2009, all operators of personal watercraft or motor boats born after January 1, 1991, to have a safe boating certificate or have an adult with a safe boating certificate with them; regulate safety of personal watercraft operated on public waterways.
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 161.750 to move the date of notification of nonrenewable of employment of certified school staff from April 30 to May 15; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 04/07/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend KRS 161.568 and 161.569 to provide a one-time election, beginning in July 1, 2008, for public university personnel who have elected to participate in the optional retirement plan to participate in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System within their six years and six months of continuous service in any one of the institutions identified in KRS 161.220(4)(b); permit university personnel who make the election to purchase their prior service with their postsecondary education employers as service credit; specify university contribution rate; amend KRS 161.540 change the reference to university employees rather than university faculty members; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 185) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish a certification incentive fund to support the development of institutes for persons pursuing Option 7 of the alternative certification routes established in KRS 161.048; establish priority for the institutes for purpose of certifying high school mathematics, chemistry, physics, and computer sciences teachers and middle school mathematics and earth science teachers, 2008-2009 to 2011-2012 academic years; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations; EMERGENCY.
Also tagged in: Administrative Regulations and Proceedings, Appropriations, Appropriations, Bonds, Public, Children and Minors, Education, Elementary and Secondary, Education, Finance, Education, Higher, Fiscal Note, State Agencies, Technical Corrections
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill TextAmend KRS 158.810 to define "career pathway" and "career pathway program of study"; amend KRS 158.812 to clarify purposes of career and technical education and legislative beliefs; create new sections of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation that specifies the criteria for classifying high schools as chronically low-performing; to require school improvement plans; require the Kentucky Board of Education to identify minimum college and career-readiness standards; develop remedial courses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to develop evidenced-based models for at-risk students; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a career and technical education accessibility fund for matching grants to local school districts to be administered by the Education Cabinet; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for implementing the grant program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define "career [...] show full description
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Latest Legislation - View All
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend KRS 157.621 to include authorization for the growth nickel that was originally authorized by the 2003 budget; provide that levy of the growth nickels are not subject to recall or voter approval; include equalization funding for the growth nickel authorized under KRS 157.621, as well as equalization funding originally included in the 2005 and 2006 budgets; include noncodified language expressing the intent of the General Assembly to affirm actions taken in the 2003, 2005, and 2006 budget bills.
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 164.020 to require the Council of Postsecondary Education to ensure transferability of credits among institutions; require the sending public institution to be responsible for all expenses incurred by a student who repeats a course that does not transfer to the receiving institution; EMERGENCY.
Also tagged in: Education, Finance, Escheats, Fiscal Note, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, Taxation, Taxation, Income--Corporate, Title Amendments, Tobacco Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 132) Bill Text
Amend KRS 136.392 to codify several court decisions; amend KRS 138.195 to clarify that manufacturers are to submit to the department monthly reports of all shipments of cigarettes, other tobacco products, or snuff to persons within this state; amend KRS 141.160 to clarify that income tax returns of cooperatives are to be made on September 15 in each year, unless the return is prepared on a fiscal year basis; amend KRS 160.6156 to provide that a utility service provider shall not be entitled to a refund or credit of taxes paid, unless the provider refunds or credits its related customers the amount of overpayment made to the department; amend KRS 160.6157 to allow the department to issue a penalty on a utility service provider who erroneously bills a customer after being notified by the department of the error in an amount equal to $25 per subsequent error, not to exceed $10,000 per month; amend KRS 160.6158 to allow the penalty to be waived based on reasonable cause.
Also tagged in: Fiscal Note, Property Valuation Administrators, Taxation, Taxation, Income--Corporate, Taxation, Income--Individual, Taxation, Inheritance and Estate, Taxation, Property, Taxation, Sales and Use, Taxation, Severance, Title Amendments Latest Action: 03/21/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 131.183 changing the interest rate accrued on taxes payable to the prime rate plus 2%; change the interest rate on overpayments to the Commonwealth to the prime minus 2%; apply to bills and refunds as of May 1, 2008; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 64.092, relating to compensation of sheriffs and court security officers, to increase salary from $8 per hour to $9 per hour on July 1, 2008 and to $11 per hour on July 1, 2009; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 161.011 to change the notification date from April 30 to May 30 when a superintendent shall notify a classified employee that the contract will not be renewed; amend KRS 161.750 to change the notification date from April 30 to May 30 when a superintendent shall notify a teacher that the contract will not be renewed; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 03/21/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Require, notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 158.070 and 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 252, Part 2, D., 4., (16), each local school district's 2007-08 school calendar to include no less than two additional six-hour instructional days in addition to those which were included in the district's 2005-06 or 2006-07 school calendar as approved by the Kentucky Department of Education; EMERGENCY.
Also tagged in: Cities, Consolidated Local Governments, Counties, Counties, Urban, Education, Elementary and Secondary, Effective Dates, Delayed, Fees, Fiscal Note, General Assembly, Local Government, Piggybacked Bills, Retroactive Legislation, Special Districts, Statutes, Taxation, Technical Corrections, Title Amendments, Tobacco
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.
Latest Action: 04/28/2008 - Line items vetoed; veto(es) not acted upon; delivered to Secretary of State with Governor's signature for non-vetoed items (Acts Ch. 191) Bill Text
Amend KRS 393.060 to modify the holding period for travelers' checks which are presumed abandoned property; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 164.020 to require the council on postsecondary education to limit resident tuition at the state's public postsecondary education institutions to the 2007-2008 tuition level for 2 years; amend KRS 164.400 to require the boards of regents and trustees to limit incidental fees for resident students to the 2007-2008 level of fees for 2 years; EMERGENCY.
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