All Animals, Livestock, and Poultry Legislation - Kentucky
HR281
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Introduced in House; adopted by voice vote Bill Text Authorize the Task Force on Animal Agriculture through November 30, 2008. Comment on Bill Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Request the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources to study the impacts of cloned meat, dairy, and poultry on agriculture and the food supply system. SR207
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Taken from committee Agriculture & Natural Resources (S); laid on clerk's desk Bill Text Urge the Commerce Cabinet and Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources and Subcommittee on Horse Farming on trail riding opportunities on state public lands. SR21
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Otto Wilson Goff. HB713
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 253.010 by deleting definition of "animal"; make technical corrections to subsequent sections of KRS Chapter 253. SB242
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 117) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 252 to establish the Kentucky beekeeping fund in the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 252.190 to set out departmental regulatory duties. SC167
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create the Task Force on Cloned Meat, Dairy, and Poultry Products; establish duties of the task force; set membership. HB623
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to create a Kentucky Milk Commission; describe the duties of the commission; describe the requirements of any recommended milk price regulation systems or assessments; require processors to keep records; create a Dairy Industry Fund; activate the commission only upon the receipt of sufficient funds to carry out the purposes of the Act. SB184
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to create a Kentucky Milk Commission; describe the duties of the commission; describe the requirements of any recommended milk price regulation systems or assessments; require processors to keep records; create a Dairy Industry Fund; activate the commission only upon the receipt of sufficient funds to carry out the purposes of the Act. HB583
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 22) Bill Text Amend KRS 148.290, authorizing the Kentucky State Horse Park commission to establish restrictions on golf cart-type vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, and horse trailers and to establish permitting and fee systems for golf cart-type vehicles and horse trailers; amend KRS 148.991 to direct the Kentucky State Horse Park executive director to enforce laws governing golf cart-type vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, and horse trailers on State Horse Park property. HB576
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 150.390 to ensure that at least five applicants from each county in which an elk hunt is authorized are issued permits for the taking of wild elk. SB159
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 52) Bill Text Amend KRS 258.085 to exempt service animals and service animals in training who are vaccinated from 10 day quarantine after biting a human. HJ130
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 133) Bill Text Direct the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to coordinate a study on Kentucky's deer population; establish study parameters and set forth those individuals and entities from whom input shall be solicited; provide that findings and recommendations shall be presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources by November 30, 2008. HB518
Latest Action: 02/15/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to establish requirements in the sale of dogs by pet stores; amend KRS 525.135 relating to the torture of a dog or cat to increase the penalty for a first offense to a Class D Felony. Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS 257.497 to establish limitations and guidelines relating to the national animal identification program. HB482
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS 246.250 to define "registered cattle," "pen sale cattle," "market animals," and "AOB"; update lists of cattle breeds eligible for premium and advertising funding; describe how AOBs can be funded; establish criteria for cattle breeds to be eligible for funding; require that the department promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the provisions of the section. Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - Floor amendment (3) filed Bill Text Amend KRS 257.010 to define "abandon," "reportable," "communicable disease," and "livestock"; amend KRS 257.020 to add poultry, fish, and animal industries to Board of Agriculture's enforcement duties; amend KRS 257.030 to denote scope of agency cooperation; clarify state veterinarian's powers in animal confinement and transport; amend KRS 257.040 to prohibit possession or transportation of an animal with a reportable disease; amend KRS 257.050 to include poultry and fish in quarantine violation prohibition; amend KRS 257.060 and 257.070 to clarify permit requirement for diseased animals brought into state and establish the board's jurisdiction in removing quarantined animals from state; amend KRS 257.080 to add a laboratory to those subject to diseased animal reporting requirements and require department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding reportable diseases; amend KRS 257.100 to give a board agent the power to destroy an animal; amend KRS 257.105 to add identification [...] show full description HR85
Latest Action: 02/13/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Recognize and honor the Kentucky State Fair. Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Agriculture & Small Business (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to require labeling of food derived from a cloned animal; establish penalties for violations. HB375
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 515.130 relating to cruelty to animals to define shelter and shade requirements for dogs and dog houses. Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 163) Bill Text Reauthorize the Kentucky Aquaculture Task Force; set forth membership duties. SR63
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Congratulate and commend the Kentucky Horse Park on being honored with the prestigious 2007 Special Eclipse Award. HB347
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - To Agriculture & Small Business (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "poultry feeding operation"; establish poultry house distance from schools and other facilities; allow exemptions. HB333
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules; recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 321 to establish a student loan forgiveness program for Kentucky residents who agree to serve as a veterinarian in large or mixed animal practice in an underserved area in Kentucky; establish loan forgiveness caps; establish eligibility requirements for loan forgiveness; create a Veterinary Student Loan Forgiveness Committee and establish duties of the committee; APPROPRIATION. HB335
Latest Action: 01/22/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a railroad to remove animal carcasses within 48 hours of being notified by an animal control officer; allow local animal control officers to go onto railroad property after the 48-hour deadline to retrieve and dispose of animal carcasses and charge the railroad company a fee of up to $250 per removal and disposal of a carcass. HB329
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) Bill Text Amend KRS 321.181 to amend the definition of "indirect supervision"; amend KRS 321.200 to allow persons authorized by owners of animals to treat the owner's animals, including administering drugs, castrating, and dehorning; amend KRS 321.443 to allow veterinary assistants to only work under the direct supervision of a veterinarian. Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 258.095 to amend the definition of "Animal shelter"; amend KRS 258.195 to delete the language requiring animal shelters to meet minimum standards by July 13, 2004; create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require all animal shelters to meet minimum standards within one year of the effective date of the Act, to require animal shelters to register with the County Judge-Executive of the county in which the shelter is located, and to require all animal shelters to report the possession of any stray, unwanted, or abandoned animals to the primary animal shelter in the county. HB242
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Recommitted to State & Local Government (S); reported favorably, to Rules with committee amendment (1-title) ; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 3rd reading, passed 32-6 with Committee Substitute, committee a Bill Text Amend KRS 381.697 to prohibit burial of animals in public cemeteries unless written consent is obtained from the cemetery owners or board. 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) Bill Text 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. SB67
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - To Seniors, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 150.235 to make nonresident veterans of the United States Armed Forces eligible for resident license and permit fee rates. HB80
Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Floor amendment (1) filed Bill Text Amend KRS 65.250 to specify certain criteria for the approval of interlocal agreements; amend KRS 65.260 to grant the Governor's Office for Local Development the right to review all interlocal agreements; amend KRS 311A.155 to require the board to grant preference to a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; increase the reimbursement to a county for lost equipment for a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; reduce the deduction from state aid for reimbursement of lost equipment to a county for lost equipment for a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; amend KRS 39C.020 to increase supplementary state funds for those regional emergency management districts created through valid interlocal agreements; amend KRS 258.119 to require the Commissioner [...] show full description SB15
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text Amend KRS 525.130 to include all animals in abandonment or neglect cases and increase penalty for injuring or killing of any animal; repeal KRS 525.135. HB98
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 247 to define "agricultural facility," "agricultural product," and "agroterrorism"; impose penalties for committing agroterrorism; amend KRS 500.080 to define "agricultural facility," "agricultural product," and "agroterrorism"; amend KRS 512.010, 513.010, 513.060, and 527.205 to conform; repeal KRS 437.410, 437.415, 437.420, and 437.429. HB77
Latest Action: 01/08/2008 - Introduced in House; to Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 525.125, 525.130, and 525.135 to require the offender to pay reasonable and necessary maintenance expenses for care of animals involved in cruelty and torture cases; amend KRS 436.605 to require a court, upon petition, to conduct forfeiture hearing and, except for good cause, require defendant to post surety for expenses related to animals care or forfeit animal. HB131
Latest Action: 04/07/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS Sections 247.6901 to 247.6957 to allow sheep and goat producers to conduct referendums to vote on whether or not to levy assessments on the sale of their animals; to define "Association", "Caprine", and "Ovine"; to establish a Kentucky Sheep and Goat Council; to allow the council to determine how assessment funds shall be disbursed; to establish how assessments may be terminated; make technical corrections to conform. HB39
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Bill Text Create new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require spaying or neutering of dogs and cats as a prerequisite to release from a releasing agency; define "releasing agency" and "veterinarian"; mandate spaying or neutering prior to release of a dog or cat; allow for exceptions related to health and maturity, rightful ownership, and use of cooperative agreements; declare that no local spay-neuter ordinance shall be superseded. Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 525.135 relating to torture of a dog or cat to increase the penalty for a first offense to a Class D felony; provision to name the bill, "Romeo's Law." HB60
Latest Action: 01/08/2008 - Introduced in House; to Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt straw, wood shavings, and sawdust from the sales and use tax when used in agricultural or equine pursuits; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2008. SB58
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 136) Bill Text Amend KRS 528.135 relating to torture of dog or cat, to provide that the first offense, as well as subsequent offenses, is Class D felony. Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Bill Text Amend KRS 525.125, 525.130, and 525.135 to forfeit ownership of animals involved in cruelty and torture cases, and prohibit ownership and possession of animals of the same species for two years; establish penalties for violations; allow exception under KRS 525.130 for livestock and poultry used in the business of agriculture. HB87
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend 2006 Kentucky Acts Chapter 252, Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement, B. Agricultural Development Appropriations General Fund - Phase I Tobacco Settlement Funds, 1. General Government, a. Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to provide and make available $20,000,000 in fiscal year 2007-2008 for drought assistance for farmers; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. HB82
Latest Action: 01/17/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217C to define "producer", to require permits to sell unpasteurized goat milk or goat milk products, to require that sales records be kept, to require sampling and testing of unpasteurized goat milk and goat milk products and establish criteria that must be met, to establish sanitary guidelines for milking areas, to establish sanitary guidelines for dairy goats, to require warning labels on containers of unpasteurized goat milk and goat milk products, and to prohibit local governments from enacting legislation relating to unpasteurized goat milk or goat milk products. |
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