Conference Committee Reports Legislation - Kentucky

The Judicial Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Restricted Funds, and Federal Funds totaling $373,860,900 in fiscal year 2008-2009 and $417,579,800 in fiscal year 2009-2010; provide a five percent salary adjustment in each fiscal year for non-elected court personnel, Justices, and Judges; include funds for salaries of circuit clerks as contained in the Judicial Branch Budget Recommendation; provide funds for salary adjustments for all elected and non-elected officials; provide funds for drug court sites; provide funds to reinstate 157 positions; provide funds for an additional family court judgeship in both the Sixth and Fifteenth Circuits; provide funds for e-filing; provide funds to support retirement payouts for Judicial Branch employees; provide funds for the Carlisle County Judicial Center; provide funds for an Administrative Office of the Courts Building; provide funds for the expansion of the Madison County Family Court; provide funds to compensate local governments [...]

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Amend KRS 11A.010 to revise the definition of "officer" to include only salaried boards and commissions as subject to the entire ethics code; delete list of certain named boards and commissions; include in the definition of "public servant" any person who performs state service on contract in a full-time position and any person or position designated by executive order of the Governor; define "person," "matter," and "board member"; amend KRS 11A.020 to prohibit use of a public servant's office or position when seeking other employment or contracting for services for oneself; prohibit the misuse of state time, equipment, personnel, facilities, or state resources for private business or campaigns; prohibit soliciting, selling to, or otherwise engaging in a financial transaction with a subordinate or a person or business whom the public servant regulates, does business with, or supervises in the public servant's official capacity, if the economic benefit is greater than $50 in a single calendar [...]

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Amend KRS 158.440 to identify the Golden Rule as the model for improving attitude and the rule for conduct for all public school students; require school districts to have plans, policies, and procedures dealing with measures for assisting students who are engaging in disruptive and disorderly behavior, including harassment, intimidation, or bullying of another student; amend KRS 158.441 to define "harassment, intimidation, or bullying"; allow civil exchange of opinions or debate or cultural practices protected under the state or federal Constitution to be included in areas exempt from definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying"; amend KRS 158.148 to require school districts to formulate a code of acceptable behavior and discipline that embraces the Golden Rule as the model for improving attitude and the rule for conduct for students; require the code of acceptable behavior to prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying of a student and include procedures for identifying, reporting,[...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms and state the General Assembly's findings relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; establish the science and mathematics advancement fund which may be used for payment of student fees for AP and IB examinations, the establishment and expansion of selected advanced science and mathematics courses, two-year grants to high schools for start-up programs, two-year renewable grants to middle schools for accelerated learning in science and mathematics, grant to school districts to develop and implement an energy technology engineering career track, professional development grants to teachers; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish the grant programs and procedures; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish long-term and annual statewide goals and require the department to develop an evaluation framework; require the department, beginning in 2008, to submit an annual report to LRC by December [...]

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The Judicial Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Restricted Funds, and Federal Funds totaling $373,860,900 in fiscal year 2008-2009 and $417,579,800 in fiscal year 2009-2010; provide a five percent salary adjustment in each fiscal year for non-elected court personnel, Justices, and Judges; include funds for salaries of circuit clerks as contained in the Judicial Branch Budget Recommendation; provide funds for salary adjustments for all elected and non-elected officials; provide funds for drug court sites; provide funds to reinstate 157 positions; provide funds for an additional family court judgeship in both the Sixth and Fifteenth Circuits; provide funds for e-filing; provide funds to support retirement payouts for Judicial Branch employees; provide funds for the Carlisle County Judicial Center; provide funds for an Administrative Office of the Courts Building; provide funds for the expansion of the Madison County Family Court; provide funds to compensate local governments [...]

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Amend KRS 11A.010 to revise the definition of "officer" to include only salaried boards and commissions as subject to the entire ethics code; delete list of certain named boards and commissions; include in the definition of "public servant" any person who performs state service on contract in a full-time position and any person or position designated by executive order of the Governor; define "person," "matter," and "board member"; amend KRS 11A.020 to prohibit use of a public servant's office or position when seeking other employment or contracting for services for oneself; prohibit the misuse of state time, equipment, personnel, facilities, or state resources for private business or campaigns; prohibit soliciting, selling to, or otherwise engaging in a financial transaction with a subordinate or a person or business whom the public servant regulates, does business with, or supervises in the public servant's official capacity, if the economic benefit is greater than $50 in a single calendar [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms and state the General Assembly's findings relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; establish the science and mathematics advancement fund which may be used for payment of student fees for AP and IB examinations, the establishment and expansion of selected advanced science and mathematics courses, two-year grants to high schools for start-up programs, two-year renewable grants to middle schools for accelerated learning in science and mathematics, grant to school districts to develop and implement an energy technology engineering career track, professional development grants to teachers; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish the grant programs and procedures; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish long-term and annual statewide goals and require the department to develop an evaluation framework; require the department, beginning in 2008, to submit an annual report to LRC by December [...]

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Amend KRS 158.440 to identify the Golden Rule as the model for improving attitude and the rule for conduct for all public school students; require school districts to have plans, policies, and procedures dealing with measures for assisting students who are engaging in disruptive and disorderly behavior, including harassment, intimidation, or bullying of another student; amend KRS 158.441 to define "harassment, intimidation, or bullying"; allow civil exchange of opinions or debate or cultural practices protected under the state or federal Constitution to be included in areas exempt from definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying"; amend KRS 158.148 to require school districts to formulate a code of acceptable behavior and discipline that embraces the Golden Rule as the model for improving attitude and the rule for conduct for students; require the code of acceptable behavior to prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying of a student and include procedures for identifying, reporting,[...]

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