Also tagged in: Budget and Financial Administration, Contracts, Contracts, Fiscal Note, Legislative Research Commission, Studies Directed, Title Amendments
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed

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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.

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Also tagged in: Consumer Affairs, Courts, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Fire Prevention, Fire Prevention, Housing, Building, and Construction, Licensing, Occupations and Professions, State Agencies
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor

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Amend KRS 198B.020 to add a new member representing the Kentucky Building Material Association to the Board of Housing, Buildings and Construction.

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Also tagged in: Engineers and Surveyors, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles, Title Amendments, Transportation, Transportation
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Transportation (S)

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Amend KRS 186.010 to define the term "low-speed electric vehicle" and amend the definition of "motor vehicle" to include a low-speed electric vehicle; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow the use of low-speed electric vehicles on roadways with a posted speed limit of thirty-five (35) miles per hour or less; require low-speed electric vehicles operated on a highway to be insured in compliance with KRS 304.39-080, titled in accordance to KRS 186.020, and registered as a motor vehicle in accordance with KRS 186.050(3)(a).

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SB100

SB100 Sponsored by Gary Tapp
Also tagged in: Architects, Architects, Capital Construction, Contracts, Contracts, Counties, Courts, Fiscal, Education, Elementary and Secondary, Education, Higher, Engineers and Surveyors
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 47)

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Amend KRS 45A.070 to expand the definition of "best value" to include provision of items equal to those named in the contract specifications; amend KRS 45A.170 to require the inclusion of best value procurement in contract specifications; amend KRS 162.065 to require the inclusion of best value provisions in school construction contract specifications; amend KRS 164A.585 to best value provisions in construction contracts at public colleges and universities.

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Also tagged in: Administrative Regulations and Proceedings, Capital Construction, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Contracts, Contracts, Cooperatives, Corporations, Corporations, Crimes and Punishments
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S)

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Reenact the provisions of 2007 HB 334/GA and SCA #1 as passed and enacted into law which contained the following provisions: creates and amends various statutes relating to business entities to accomplish the following: make consistent the provisions of the corporate and other business organization acts regarding business entity names such that equivalent rules will govern the names of business corporations, nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, associations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and business trusts; modify procedural rules across the various business entity acts such that they will contain equivalent if not identical provisions; update provisions of KRS Chapter 271B to reflect the more current provisions of the Model Business Corporation Act; allow limited liability companies to enter into a share exchange with a corporation, be created by conversion from a corporation, have statutory rules governing nonprofit status, and to provide for their [...]

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HB21

HB21 Sponsored by Jim Wayne
Also tagged in: Administrative Regulations and Proceedings, Blind or Deaf Persons, Charitable Organizations and Institutions, Contracts, Contracts, Corrections and Correctional Facilities, State, Disabilities and the Disabled, Fiscal Note, Mental Disability, State Agencies
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government

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Create Kentucky State Use Commission; establish duties and membership of State Use Commission; amend KRS 45A.470 to define the Kentucky State Use Commission and qualified nonprofit agency or work center serving the blind or severely disabled; amend KRS 45A.470 to require the purchase of goods and services from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled and designate the Kentucky State Use Commission as agency providing purchasing information to governmental agencies; amend KRS 45A.080, 45A.085, 45A.095, and 45A.100 to require that state governmental purchases be made from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled; create a new section of KRS 141 to define terms; establish a nonrefundable community rehabilitation credit program; establish maximum amount of credit allowed per corporation per tax year; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credit is applied against [...]

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Also tagged in: Budget and Financial Administration, Capital Construction, Real Estate, Real Estate, Transportation, Transportation
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - To State & Local Government (S)

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Amend KRS 45A.045, regarding the purchase of real property by the Commonwealth, to eliminate the requirement that the Governor approve the purchase of real property from a state employee; retain requirement that the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet approve such a purchase.

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