All Ethics Legislation - Kentucky
HB600
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate; Conference Committee report adopted in House and Senate; Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate Bill Text Amend KRS 6.350 to establish new procedures for the completion of the required actuarial analysis for bills pertaining to state-administered retirement systems; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to establish new calculation of final compensation for KERS, CERS, and SPRS employees hired on or after July 1, 2008; amend KRS 16.560, 61.575, and 78.640 to establish fixed 2.5% interest rate on member contribution accounts for KERS, CERS, and SPRS employees hired on or after July 1, 2008; amend KRS 16.576, 16.577, 61.559, and 61.595 to establish new retirement requirements and benefit multipliers for KERS, CERS, and SPRS employees hired on or after July 1, 2008; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the Kentucky Public Pension Financing Advisory Commission in the Finance and Administration Cabinet to review investments and financing of the state-administered retirement systems and to provide a report to the General Assembly; amend KRS 61.546 to limit sick leave service credit [...] show full description Comment on Bill SB148
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to create reporting requirements for persons advocating adoption or defeat of a constitutional amendment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to create reporting requirements for a legislative agents who advocate the adoption or defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment; require weekly reports when the General Assembly is in session; require reports to be posted on the Legislative Ethics Commission's Web site; amend KRS 121.015 to redefine "political issues committee"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to create reporting requirements for political issues committees that advocate the ratification or rejection of a constitutional amendment; require that daily reports be submitted to the Registry of Election Finance for the 30 days preceding a general election; amend KRS 121.180 to conform; amend KRS 121.990 to create penalties; declare an EMERGENCY. HB387
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To State Government (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 11A.110 to require statewide elected officials and each major management officer to receive ethics training within the first year of employment; require the training to be through classroom training or educational materials; direct the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to effect the manner and delivery of the training; require agency-designated ethics officers to cooperate with the execution of this training. HB250
Latest Action: 04/02/2008 - Conference Committee report filed in House; Conference Committee report adopted in House; Free Conference Committee appointed in House Bill Text 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 [...] show full description HB69
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 11A.201 to amend the definition of "executive agency decision" to specify that the decision of an executive agency regarding agency expenditures applies to expenditures of at least $5,000 per year; clarify that an executive agency decision is also a decision by the Public Service Commission pursuant to a request for a change in the rates or service of a utility which results in an order of the Public Service Commission, thus applying lobbying provisions of the code to the Public Service Commission; remove definition of and references to "substantial basis". HB47
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text Amend KRS 11A.010 to define "legal defense trust" and "trustee"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to require reporting requirements for a legal defense trust; amend KRS 11A.040 to prohibit a public servant or officer from accepting donations to a legal defense trust from any person or business who does business with the state; amend KRS 11A.050 to establish when financial disclosure statements are to be filed by a trustee of a legal defense trust; amend KRS 11A.990 to establish that violation of the donor limitations or filing requirements constitutes a Class D felony and the forfeiture of employment or constitutional or statutory office. HB212
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To State Government (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 6.611 to exempt from the definition of "anything of value" promotional items of nominal value and informational items; exempt from "anything of value" the cost of attendance or participation, food, and beverages consumed at an in-state event to which an individual legislator has been invited and received prior approval from the LRC; include in the definition of "legislation" administrative regulations and any legislative proposal, even if the proposal is not introduced in the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.686 to prohibit the Commission, in the absence of a complaint, from imposing any penalties except certain specified administrative penalties; permit the Commission, if a complainant or person acting in cooperation with the complainant publicly discloses the existence of a complaint or preliminary inquiry, to dismiss the complaint without prejudice to a new complaint being refiled by the complainant or another person; amend KRS 6.711 to reduce the length of orientation courses [...] show full description |
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