All Legislative Research Commission Legislation - Kentucky
HR264
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Introduced in House; adopted by voice vote Bill Text Request the Legislative Research Commission to reestablish the Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs. 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. HC203
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Direct the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to study the current system for reporting and paying local license and occupational taxes and report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2008. SC177
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Direct staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study options for changing Kentucky's student financial aid programs to ensure shared responsibility among students, families, state and federal governments, and postsecondary education institutions; require a workplan to be presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Education no later than September 1, 2008, with the study to be completed by September 1, 2009; require a written report with policy options to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue by October 1, 2009. Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Create a new section in KRS 6.905 to 6.935 to provide a timetable for the sunset of each tax increment financing, tourism development, and economic development program and require the Program Review and Investigations Committee of the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a systematic review prior to the expiration of each program; create a new section in KRS Chapter 65 to sunset tax increment financing provisions; create a new section in KRS Chapter 148 to sunset the Kentucky Tourism Development Act; create a new section in Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to sunset the various economic development programs; amend KRS 131.190 to allow Legislative Research Commission staff access to confidential data and impose the penalties for improper use or disclosure of the data as provided by KRS 131.990(2)(a) and (b). HB743
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - Taken from Rules; placed in the Orders of the Day Bill Text Amend KRS 7.090 to provide that Legislative Research Commission employees shall receive the same retiree health coverage and benefits as state employees. HB711
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 7.112 to include documents as one of the informational items that public officers, agencies, or organizations of state or local government are required to furnish to the Legislative Research Commission without charge. HB706
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 7.103 to establish an Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development and an Interim Joint Committee on Tourism; specify the standing committees contained in each joint committee. HC179
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H) Bill Text Require the Legislative Research Commission to designate staff to study Kentucky's preparedness to respond to the needs of children with Sensory Processing Disorders; require the study to be completed by November 1, 2008; require a written report to be presented by December 1, 2008. 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. HJ169
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Require the Legislative Research Commission to assemble the Driver's License Issuance Task Force to study issuance of operator's licenses, instruction permits, and personal identification cards. HJ165
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Direct the Kentucky Department of Education to coordinate the development of specific proposals to enhance teachers' working environment; require the department to give a status report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by December 1, 2008, and provide the overview and preliminary recommendations to the Task Force on Teacher Roles, Responsibilities, and Compensation by July 1, 2009; establish the task force to be composed of ten members of the Interim Joint Committee on Education; require the task force to meet at least once a month and examine aspects of teachers' compensation and working environments; require a written and oral report with recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by November 1, 2009. HC166
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a comprehensive statewide study of postsecondary education student transfer to be completed by July 1, 2009. HC164
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a Commonwealth Debt Policy Task Force to study Kentucky's debt policies and practices; report findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2008. HC160
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create a Task Force on Student Financial Aid composed of four members appointed by the President of the Senate, two members appointed by the Minority Floor Leader of the Senate, four members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, two members appointed by the Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives, and six members appointed by the Governor; require that a report be submitted to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 1, 2008. SB161
Latest Action: 02/19/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text Propose an amendment to Sections 36 and 42 of the Kentucky Constitution to repeal annual sessions; provide ballot language for submission to voters. Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Require the Legislative Research Commission to group monthly interim committee meetings for maximum efficiency and cost savings. HB481
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed Bill Text Amend KRS 45A.190 to raise minimum construction contract amount requiring performance and payment bonds from $40,000 to $100,000; similarly increase amounts triggering evaluation of whether to require a performance bond for goods and services contracts over $100,000 and construction contracts less than $100,000. HB431
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules Bill Text Amend KRS 304.19-010 to extend the duration for credit health insurance from five years to no more than ten years; and amend KRS 304.19-080 to conform and to expand the premium chart establishing the premium amount for the additional 61 to 120 monthly installments. HB413
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to require a legislative timeout prior to a vote on an appropriation or revenue bill. HJ82
Latest Action: 04/28/2008 - Filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (having become law) (Acts Ch. 189) Bill Text Provide that any mandates, directives, and initiatives in the 2008-2010 Legislative Branch Budget Memorandum have the force and effect of law; EMERGENCY. HB407
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 122) Bill Text The Legislative Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund $52,712,900 for fiscal year 2008-2009 and $55,452,600 for fiscal year 2009-2010; appropriate from Restricted Funds $89,600 for fiscal year 2008-2009 and $217,000 for fiscal year 2009-2010; SJ80
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 64) Bill Text Create a commission to study and reform the Kentucky Penal Code; set commission membership; require report to the General Assembly no later than July 1, 2011. SR61
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Returned to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S) Bill Text Urge the Legislative Research Commission to appoint members of the Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development and Tourism to a subcommittee to examine issues during the interim pertaining to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010; if the subcommittee is created, report the findings to the Legislative Research Commission before December 1, 2008, at which time the subcommittee will cease to exist. 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 Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Licensing & Occupations (H) Bill Text Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a task force composed of seventeen members from the General Assembly, the Office of Charitable Gaming, charitable gaming licensees, and the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, appointed by the Legislative Research Commission, to study the oversight of charitable gaming; require findings and recommendations to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission by November 3, 2008, for referral to the appropriate committee; authorize the Legislative Research Commission to alternatively assign the study to an interim joint committee or subcommittee thereof and to designate a completion date. HB251
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 3rd reading, passed 34-1 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) ; re Bill Text Expand and refine list of entities included in definition of "contracting body"; allow committee to determine definition of "governmental emergency"; refine definition of memorandum of agreement (MOA) and include grant and research agreements; allow committee to establish reporting schedule for exempt MOA's; correct references to universities and colleges and institutions of higher education; exempt MOA's over one million dollars, but require reporting of such agreements; require reporting of federal grant and research projects; refine definition of "personal service contract" (PSC) to specifically include contracts for personal or professional services and group health care for public employees; allow committee to establish reporting schedule for exempt PSC's; exempt health maintenance organization or Medicaid managed health care service contracts with the Cabinet for Health Services, but require reporting of such contracts; exempt contracts between postsecondary institutions and health [...] show full description HB89
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Posting waived Bill Text Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the International Business Relations Committee as a permanent committee of the Legislative Research Commission; provide that the committee shall address efforts to attract and maintain international businesses in Kentucky and open foreign markets to Kentucky goods and services. HB108
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 216.555 to require the cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission on the number and type of citations issued to long-term care facilities; amend KRS 216.557 to allow a facility assessed a federal civil monetary penalty to be subject to a Type A or Type B citation; increase the civil penalty for Type A citations to not less than $5,000 nor more than $25,000; increase the civil penalty for Type B citations to not less than $500 nor more than $1,000; amend KRS 216.560 to increase the civil penalty to $1,000 for Type A citations that are not corrected within the time specified for correction; delete the application for an extension of time to be granted by the cabinet when a licensee has made arrangements to correct a Type A or Type B citation; treble Type A and Type B citations when the subject matter was caused by or relates to a failure by the facility to maintain sufficient nursing or direct care staff; require any trebled fine to be reported by the facility's administrator [...] show full description 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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