All Effective Dates, Emergency Legislation - Kentucky

Create new section of KRS Chapter 386 to define terms relating to establishing an investment services trust; establish requirements for a qualified affidavit to establish an investment services trust; establish protection of the trust corpus from creditors' claims or an action to enforce a judgment entered by a court or other body having adjudicative authority; provide that any authority over the trust corpus retained by the transferor shall be void; provide the terms for avoidance of a qualified disposition and provide that if a qualified trustee acted in good faith he shall have a paramount lien against the property, and provide that if a beneficiary has not acted in bad faith, avoidance of the qualified disposition shall be subject to the right of the beneficiary; provide that a spendthrift provision is deemed to be a restriction on transfer of the transferor's beneficial interest; authorize a transferor to appoint one or more advisors regarding authority over the trust and for the trust [...]

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Amend KRS 61.680 to include reference to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System as one of the retirement systems in which nonelected employees may participate as appropriate; amend KRS 161.220 to specify that experience substitution clauses only apply to employees of the Kentucky Department of Education who have a four-year degree; exclude awards program from definition of "annual compensation"; amend KRS 161.310 to clarify retirement incentive; amend KRS 161.340 to require transfer of leave balances from the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System to other Executive Department agencies; amend KRS 161.480 to specify procedures for designating beneficiaries and the effect of failure to make a designation; amend KRS 161.515 to specify that out-of-state teaching service is purchasable only at full actuarial cost; indicate retirement factors for purchase of out-of-state service; amend KRS 161.520 to specify procedures for account refunds, in lieu of survivor allowances, by parents, or legal [...]

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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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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky Center for Youth Development; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate the center; state the mission of the center; require the center to establish a clearinghouse for information and materials, provide programs, analyze data, research and evaluate youth development programs; administer a positive youth development grant program, promote interagency efforts to address positive youth development, prepare and disseminate best practice information, advise the Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council, and provide an annual report; require the 21 member council to be appointed; require the council to be attached to the cabinet and given administrative support from the center; require the council to meet quarterly; permit the establishment of subcommittees by the council; establish duties of the council; require the council to submit an annual [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to define terms; require a person making an independent expenditure to report it if the amount exceeds $500 in the aggregate in any one election; establish campaign contribution limits for candidates, slates of candidates, and candidate campaign committees; establish campaign contribution limits for caucus campaign committees, political issues committees, permanent committees, and executive committees; permit the establishment of a building account; establish campaign contribution limits for inaugural committees; establish campaign contribution limits for individuals; permit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, referendum committees, and individuals to utilize on-line credit and debit card transactions; provide for reporting exemptions for any candidate, slate, or political issues committee if a form is filed stating that contributions will not be accepted or expended in excess of $5,000 in any one election; require that referendum committees [...]

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Amend KRS 158.810 to define "career pathway" and "career pathway program of study"; amend KRS 158.812 to clarify purposes of career and technical education and legislative beliefs; create new sections of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation that specifies the criteria for classifying high schools as chronically low-performing; to require school improvement plans; require the Kentucky Board of Education to identify minimum college and career-readiness standards; develop remedial courses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to develop evidenced-based models for at-risk students; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a career and technical education accessibility fund for matching grants to local school districts to be administered by the Education Cabinet; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for implementing the grant program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define "career [...]

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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 [...]

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Create new section of KRS 160 to require 30 minutes per day, 150 minutes per week, or the equivalent minutes per month of structured moderate to vigorous physical activity in a minimum of 10 minute intervals beginning in the 2009-2010 school year for preschool through grade 6 and 2010-2011 for grades 7 and 8; permit the physical activity to be met through a combination of traditional classroom instruction, structured recess, and physical education; require the physical activity to be part of the existing school day and permit it to be considered part of the instructional day; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the physical activity requirement; require the department to develop a reporting mechanism for schools to report to the department on physical activities; require the department to report no later than November 1 of each year to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; amend [...]

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Amend KRS 222.001 to include problem gambling in the chapter; amend KRS 222.003 to add voluntary or self-help problem gambling programs to programs not affected by KRS Chapter 222; amend KRS 222.005 to specify that chapter definitions do not apply to Sections 4 through 6; create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the problem gamblers awareness and treatment fund administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and appropriate moneys to promote awareness of and treatment for problem gambling, specify uses for the fund, establish incremental funding mechanisms and limitations on expenditures; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish standards for the program and the application process; amend KRS 138.510 to partially fund the compulsive gamblers awareness and treatment fund from the total amount wagered in Kentucky subject to excise taxes; amend KRS 154A.130 to partially fund the compulsive gambling awareness and treatment fund from the [...]

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