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Latest Action: 01/22/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name Kentucky Route 15 from its intersection with Kentucky Route 11 in Clay City to its intersection with Kentucky Route 213 in the city of Stanton in Powell County in honor and memory of Randy Lacy and to erect signs at appropriate intervals that read, "Randy Lacy Memorial Highway."
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: 01/11/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of the Country Music Highway from the Helen Brown Bridge at US Highway 23 near mile point 27 northbound to mile point 18 on US Highway 23 southbound in honor of Junior Hager and the Melody Drifters; direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs at appropriate intervals that read "Junior Hager and the Melody Drifters."
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name the new bridge to be constructed in front of Runyon Elementary School, four miles from the intersection of Kentucky Route 199 and U.S. Route 119 in the community of Pinsonfork in Pike County, in honor and memory of Mary Lou Runyon; direct the cabinet to erect signs at each end of the bridge that read "Mary Lou Runyon Memorial Bridge."
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name the new bridge on U.S. Highway 460/Kentucky Route 80 that crosses Greasy Creek at Shop Branch in Pike County in honor and memory of Miles Justice and erect signs on both sides of the bridge that read "Miles Justice Family Bridge."
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor Phillip K. Epling by naming the bridge on Kentucky Route 80 over Beaver Creek in Pike County in his memory; direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs at each end of the bridge that read "Phillip K. Epling Memorial Bridge."
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 45) Bill Text Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name a portion of U.S. Highway 231 in Daviess County in memory of Specialist Timothy Adam Fulkerson and erect signs on US Route 231 that read "Specialist Timothy Adam Fulkerson Memorial Highway."
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Transportation Bill Text Extend "The Purple Heart Trail" past Fort Knox and Fort Campbell.
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Reassigned to Judiciary (H) Bill Text Create several new sections of KRS Chapter 183 and amend KRS 183.990 to establish several new state offenses relating to aviation security including aircraft piracy, transporting hazardous material, interfering with security personnel, interfering with flight crew, carrying a weapon on a plane, and providing false information in regard to aviation security, with the elements of the offenses patterned on existing federal aviation security law.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 45A.625 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to mandate that state-owned vehicles capable of using ethanol, biodiesel, or other biofuels refuel with such biofuels whenever available, beginning on or before December 1, 2009.
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Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To House Floor; adopted by voice vote Bill Text Request the Transportation Cabinet to erect a highway sign to commemorate the site of the Garrett School in Floyd County.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "hybrid vehicle"; require Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations establishing minimum sound standards for hybrid vehicles within one year of effective date of the Act; require research and consultation prior to establishing minimum sound level standards; require all new hybrid vehicles sold in Kentucky to comply with the standards set in this act beginning August 1, 2010.
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 186.162 to establish a special license plate for Gold Star Family members; establish fees and eligibility requirements for issuance of the special license plate; amend 186.164 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulation for proof of eligibility for a Gold Star Family member special license plate.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 160) Bill Text Amend KRS 189.635 to clarify that accident reports are not public records; allow a limited exemption to the prohibition on commercial distribution of accident reports to allow sharing with entities that collect vehicle accident data to give consumers a means of determining a vehicle's accident history and allow contracting with an entity to provide electronic accident reports to some entities also are eligible to receive them; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding fees for accident reports provided under this section.
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 277 to define terms; establish the rail infrastructure project fund; set requirements for projects eligible for funding; require that any remaining balance at the end of the year shall not lapse; require the Transportation Cabinet to solicit grant proposals from short line railroad companies to be used for projects; require the cabinet to conduct a study of projects carried out with grant assistance and to submit a report to the House and Senate transportation committees; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; appropriate $5,000,000 for fiscal years 2008-2011 to the rail infrastructure project fund.
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - Received in House Bill Text Amend KRS 186.050 to establish a voluntary contribution of $10 for motor vehicles being registered as farm trucks; require the proceeds of the contribution to be deposited into an agricultural program trust fund; require proceeds and interest from the trust fund to be used for agricultural programs administered by the Department of Agriculture; permit the person registering the motor vehicle to opt out of the voluntary contribution.
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - Received in House Bill Text Create a new section of KRS 189 to create an overweight and overdimensional permit to allow the transportation of water craft from the location of the original manufacturer to its destination in the Commonwealth; set length and width limitations for vehicle and trailer combination; allow the cabinet to limit the vehicle transporting the water craft to specific routes; require applicant to measure clearances of all highway structures on the specified route and acknowledge that the cabinet does not guarantee safe passage of vehicles by issuing a permit; permit the cabinet to require applicant to give bond to indemnify state or county against highway or bridge damage; prohibit recipients of permits issued under this section from exceeding weight limitations of any bridge; require department to promulgate administrative regulations.
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 177.068 to designate United States Highway 68 in Mercer County as part of the National Truck Network.
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 178.020 to allow local governments, by ordinance, to allow the placement and regulation of devices designed to limit access to public roads in residential subdivisions.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 186.412 to require the circuit clerk to ask each applicant for a driver's license to provide a phone number to be used in case of an emergency; prohibit the phone number from appearing on the face of the license, but be stored in the database; permit the applicant to choose not to provide a phone number.
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