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Latest Action: 02/19/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text
Propose an amendment to Sections 36 and 42 of the Kentucky Constitution to repeal annual sessions; provide ballot language for submission to voters.
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Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextReenact the provisions of 2007 HB 334/GA and SCA #1 as passed and enacted into law which contained the following provisions: creates and amends various statutes relating to business entities to accomplish the following: make consistent the provisions of the corporate and other business organization acts regarding business entity names such that equivalent rules will govern the names of business corporations, nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, associations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and business trusts; modify procedural rules across the various business entity acts such that they will contain equivalent if not identical provisions; update provisions of KRS Chapter 271B to reflect the more current provisions of the Model Business Corporation Act; allow limited liability companies to enter into a share exchange with a corporation, be created by conversion from a corporation, have statutory rules governing nonprofit status, and to provide for their [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Attorney General, Campaign Finance, Contracts, Corrections Impact, Effective Dates, Emergency, Elections and Voting, General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Local Mandate, Piggybacked Bills, 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
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 79) Bill TextAmend KRS 117.085 to permit requests for applications for an absentee ballot to be transmitted by electronic mail; to require the clerk to provide a voter with a written authorization to vote if the voter does not vote by absentee ballot and returns the ballot to the clerk; amend KRS 117.165 to require the county board of elections to examine the voting machines designated for use during absentee voting not later than 3 business days preceding the date set by the board to conduct absentee voting and to give notice of such examination 24 hours preceding such; amend KRS 117.265 to establish the ineligibility of a write-in candidate; amend KRS 117.275 to conform; amend KRS 117.315 to require the list of challengers be presented to the chair or the secretary of the party committee of the county on or before the third Friday in April preceding the primary; amend KRS 117.995 to expand to absentee voting days the same prohibited activities currently applied to election day; amend KRS 118.425 to [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 7, 2008 Bill Text
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly to enact laws permitting the operation of up to seven casinos by horse racing tracks licensed as of January 1, 2008, and up to five other casinos; to establish the distribution of casino gaming moneys; to submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create new sections in KRS Chapter 14 to establish a crime victim address protection program for victims of domestic violence and abuse, stalking, and felony sexual offenses which would allow crime victims to use an address provided by the Secretary of State in lieu of the victim's actual physical address for the purpose of receiving mail and to allow crime victims to access government services, including the right to vote, based upon their actual addresses but utilizing the program's address on government records and documents.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 129) Bill Text
Amend KRS 118.125, 118.165, 118.315, 188A.060, and 83A.045 to provide that signatures for nomination papers shall not be affixed prior to the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November of the year preceding the year in which the office will appear on the ballot; amend KRS 118.227 to require the Secretary of State to certify any changes made to a slate of candidates to the appropriate county clerk, the Registry of Election Finance, and the State Board of Elections; amend KRS 83A.170 and 83A.175 to establish when a candidate's name is not to be printed on the ballot; amend KRS 117.265 to prohibit any candidate whose name appears on the ballot from being eligible as a a write-in candidate in the regular election, except in certain situations; amend KRS 118.601, 118A.090, 83A.040, and 83A.165 to conform.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish early voting; amend KRS 117.085, 117.086, 117.0863, 117.087, and 117.235 to conform.
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) Bill Text
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 83A, 116, 117, 118, 118A, 119, and 121 to change the filing deadline for candidates in primaries from the last Tuesday in January to the last Tuesday in April; change the date of the primary from the first Tuesday after the third Monday in May to the first Tuesday after the third Monday in August; eliminate the runoff primary for gubernatorial slates; amend various sections to conform; EMERGENCY.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to establish the Kentucky Gubernatorial Debate Commission; require the commission, when funding is available, to hold at least one gubernatorial debate in each congressional district in a gubernatorial election year; allow the commission, when funding is available, to hold debates among candidates for Lieutenant Governor; establish membership of the commission; set rules for members' reimbursement, terms of service, and meetings; encourage broadcast media to carry the debates; allow the commission to seek and accept grants from public and private sources.
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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 Bill Text
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.
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.
Latest Action: 02/19/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text
Propose an amendment to Sections 36 and 42 of the Kentucky Constitution to repeal annual sessions; provide ballot language for submission to voters.
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Appropriations, Cities, Cities, Consolidated Local Governments, Constitution, Ky., Counties, Counties, Counties, Urban, County Clerks, Economic Development, Economic Development, Education, Elementary and Secondary, Education, Finance, Education, Higher, Elections and Voting, Environment and Conservation, Fish and Wildlife, Gambling, Gambling, General Assembly, Health and Medical Services, Local Government, Local Mandate, Mental Health, Motor Vehicles, Property, Public Health, Public Health, Racing, State Employees, Taxation, Taxation, Taxation, Property, Teachers, Title Amendments
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 7, 2008 Bill Text
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly to enact laws permitting the operation of up to seven casinos by horse racing tracks licensed as of January 1, 2008, and up to five other casinos; to establish the distribution of casino gaming moneys; to submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to establish the Kentucky Gubernatorial Debate Commission; require the commission, when funding is available, to hold at least one gubernatorial debate in each congressional district in a gubernatorial election year; allow the commission, when funding is available, to hold debates among candidates for Lieutenant Governor; establish membership of the commission; set rules for members' reimbursement, terms of service, and meetings; encourage broadcast media to carry the debates; allow the commission to seek and accept grants from public and private sources.
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute as a Consent Bill; posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15; 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute ; received in House; to Rules (H); posted for passage f Bill Text
Amend KRS 121.135 to authorize the general counsel of the registry to issue a written advisory opinion relating to a specific transaction or activity not later than 20 days after the registry receives the request.
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 79) Bill TextAmend KRS 117.085 to permit requests for applications for an absentee ballot to be transmitted by electronic mail; to require the clerk to provide a voter with a written authorization to vote if the voter does not vote by absentee ballot and returns the ballot to the clerk; amend KRS 117.165 to require the county board of elections to examine the voting machines designated for use during absentee voting not later than 3 business days preceding the date set by the board to conduct absentee voting and to give notice of such examination 24 hours preceding such; amend KRS 117.265 to establish the ineligibility of a write-in candidate; amend KRS 117.275 to conform; amend KRS 117.315 to require the list of challengers be presented to the chair or the secretary of the party committee of the county on or before the third Friday in April preceding the primary; amend KRS 117.995 to expand to absentee voting days the same prohibited activities currently applied to election day; amend KRS 118.425 to [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text
Repeal KRS 14.080 requiring the Secretary of State and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to report interest on state bonds.
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text
Propose to amend Sections 30 and 31 to the Constitution of Kentucky to extend the terms of State Senators from four years to six years beginning in 2010; submit to voters.
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