All Consumer Affairs Legislation - Kentucky

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to create definitions; to restrict certain uses by agencies of a person’s Social Security number and prohibit the inclusion of a person’s Social Security number in documents filed or recorded with an agency, subject to certain exceptions, and to establish a procedure to request redaction of a Social Security number shown in official records on an agency’s Internet Web site subject to certain exceptions, and to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009; to require an agency to give notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to require an agency to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions; to declare that the provisions regarding use of Social Security numbers, security breach notices, and safeguarding against security breaches do not limit the power to enforce criminal or civil statutes or [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to create definitions related to identity theft; restrict certain uses by businesses of a consumer's Social Security number subject to certain exceptions, to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009, and to make a violation subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to give specified notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; declare that the provisions regarding business use [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...]

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Amend KRS 304.15-020 to define "advertisement," "financing transaction," "life expectancy," "premium finance loan," "purchaser," "settled policy," and "stranger-originated life insurance"; amend KRS 304.15-700 to prohibit an insurer that is the subject of a life settlement contract from being responsible for any act or omission of a broker, purchaser, or provider unless the insurer receives compensation for the placement of the life settlement contract from the broker, purchaser, or provider; prohibit an insurer from requiring the owner, insured, provider, or broker to sign any form, disclosure, consent, waiver, or acknowledgment that has not been expressly approved by the executive director of the Office of Insurance; create a new section of KRS 304.15-700 to 304.15-725 to regulate advertisements pertaining to life settlements; amend KRS 304.15-710 to add disclosures a provider must provide to an owner; require the broker to make certain disclosures to the provider and owner; create a [...]

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Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and KRS 18A.095, relating to the same, to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, [...]

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