All Communications Legislation - Kentucky
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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to establish definitions relating to Internet Web sites, blogs, or message boards; require registration prior to posting information to these interactive services; identify persons, businesses, or entities that post information to these interactive services; establish penalty provisions. (1) Comment About This Bill Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Tourism Development & Energy (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require television broadcasters and cable television providers operating in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to make available all non-High Definition, non-interactive programming currently on channels two through 99 to consumers in analog format, without requiring a digital converter box, for a period of eight years beyond the commencement of the transition to digital broadcast television, beginning no later than February 17, 2009, and continuing through February 17, 2017. HB725
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 65.760 regarding emergency 911 telephone service to permit local government to designate a collection agent other than the landline phone provider for the monthly service charge; allow that agent to compensate itself from the proceeds; remove the CMRS administrator from the CMRS Board; increase amount of fund available for direct grants from $2 million to $4 million; amend KRS 65.7629 to authorize CMRS board to increase the CMRS service charge not more than the increase in the Consumer Price Index; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt 911 service charges from sales tax. HB667
Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 39F.010 to define the term "impaired adult"; amend KRS 39F.020 to require the rescue squads organized to search for a missing impaired adult to cooperate with local media outlets in notifying the public about the search; amend KRS 39F.180 to require the person managing the search or organization conducting the search for a person with a known or reported organic brain disorder including Alzheimer's disease to report the search as a Golden Alert to local media outlets in addition to the local emergency management director, local search and rescue coordinator, and duty officer of the Division of Emergency Management; establish title as the "Diantha Louise George Golden Alert Bill." HB649
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 180) Bill Text Amend KRS 367.4903 to include various forms of excavation in definitions; include inability to restore interrupted utility service in definition of "emergency"; specify multimember protection notification center designated by the Public Service Commission as sole recipient of 811 dialed calls for excavator-operators to obtain information regarding approximate location of underground facilities; exclude penetration of existing grade from definition of "routine road maintenance"; amend KRS 367.4909 to conform; amend KRS 367.4911 to require excavators to cease excavation or demolition activities and immediately report any underground facility damage that results in the escape of any flammable, toxic, or corrosive gas or liquid to appropriate authorities via 911 emergency telephone number; amend KRS 367.4913 to conform; amend KRS 367.4915 to exempt emergency work by utility operators or utility subcontractors from requirements of KRS 367.4905 to 367.4917; amend KRS 367.4917 to provide for the [...] show full description HB588
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 154.20-150 to require the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to make available on-line to the public the written status reports that are submitted to the Legislative Research Commission. Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Taken from committee Appropriations & Revenue (S); 2nd reading; returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text Direct a legislative staff study of funding for emergency call centers. SB125
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109) Bill Text Amend KRS 39F.010 to define the term "impaired adult"; amend KRS 39F.020 to require the rescue squads organized to search for a missing impaired adult to cooperate with local media outlets in notifying the public about the search; amend KRS 39F.180 to require the person managing the search or organization conducting the search for a person with a known or reported organic brain disorder including Alzheimer's disease to report the search to local media outlets in addition to the local emergency management director, local search and rescue coordinator, and duty officer of the Division of Emergency Management. SB116
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to prohibit the operator of a motor vehicle on a public highway to read, write or send a text message; direct that enforcement for violation be taken only as a secondary offense; prohibit the Transportation Cabinet from including a conviction on the driving record of the person or to report the conviction to the employer of the person or any insurance company; penalty. HB367
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute Bill Text Amend KRS 510.155 relating to using a communications system to procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense; add KRS 510.110 relating to sexual abuse in the first degree to prohibited solicitations; create prima facie evidence presumption of intent to commit offense even if the meeting did not occur; apply provisions to any communication originating or received within the Commonwealth. HB281
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 525.080 relating to harassing communications to add communications via the internet and increase penalty for subsequent offenses to a Class A misdemeanor. Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit unsolicited faxes to a telephone facsimile machine; define telephone facsimile machine, unsolicited advertisement by a telephone facsimile machine, and established business relationship; provide exception for an established business relationship between the sender and recipient; require that fax transmissions contain an opt-out procedure for recipient; provide for a private cause of action in District or Circuit Court; amend KRS 367.46951 to conform; amend KRS 367.990 to impose a maximum penalty of $500 for each violation, except that the penalty for a willful violation shall be not more than $2,000. 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. HB277
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS 132.200 to clarify the local property tax exemption for radio and television equipment and to exempt broadcast towers and weather equipment; apply to assessments made on and after January 1, 2009. Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 605, relating to juvenile proceedings, to require social service workers, child protective services workers, peace officers, and others interviewing a child alleged to be abused, needy, neglected, dependent, or delinquent to make a video or audio recording of the interview; specify to whom recordings of interviews are available; limit uses of recordings of interviews; provide for destruction of recordings when no longer needed. Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Transportation Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define the term "wireless communication device"; prohibit the use of wireless communication device by the operator of a motor vehicle with limited exceptions; amend KRS 189.990 to provide for a warning for first violation and set fine for subsequent violations at between $20 and $100. HB90
Latest Action: 01/08/2008 - Introduced in House; to Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Prohibit use of automated calling equipment or recorded political telephone messages from or by a political party or campaign; make use of such equipment for communicating political messages by a political party or campaign a Class B misdemeanor; each such automated call or recorded political message shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed fifty (50) dollars, with a maximum fine for such violations not to exceed one thousand (1000) dollars. HB125
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - To Transportation (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 186.450 to prohibit any person with an instruction permit from using a personal telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or moped; require the cabinet to provide a decal to be affixed to a vehicle identifying that the operator is in possession of an instruction permit; amend KRS 186.452 to prohibit any person with a intermediate driver's license from using a personal telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or moped; require the cabinet to provide a decal to be affixed to a vehicle identifying that the operator is in possession of an intermediate driver's license. |
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