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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the compensation of coroners and deputy corners. [HB-712]
Amend KRS 64.185 to establish a salary schedule for coroners and increase the minimum compensation for deputy coroners; require the Department for Local Government to certify the population group within the salary schedule and the years of service for each coroner assuming office; provide for adjustments to compensation for part-time employment and the consumer price index; allow additional compensation for training courses completed; require an annual cost of living adjustment to be granted to each deputy coroner's salary; require the fiscal court
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Local Government (h) on 02/20/2025
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AN ACT relating to stray equines. [SB-121]
Amend KRS 259.120 to allow the county judge/executive to contract for the performance of specific duties required to be performed when an equine is subject to being taken up by a person or organization that provides animal sheltering services; require the contract to be approved by the county fiscal court; establish immunity from criminal and civil liability.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Local Government (h) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-406]
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Returned To Judiciary (h) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local jails. [HB-660]
Amend KRS 532.100 to provide that a Class C or D felon may serve his or her term of imprisonment in a local jail in which the fiscal court of the county has agree to house state prisoners, under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to counties and declaring an emergency. [HB-456]
Amends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments regarding working hours; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 86) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children's early learning services taxing districts. [HB-425]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize the establishment of children's early learning services taxing districts; define terms; provide a method and alternative method for the creation of each district and the funding of the district to be set at a maximum of 10 cents per 100 dollars of assessed property valuation; specify the board membership; require compliance with special purpose governmental entity reporting requirements; establish oath and expenses for directors; allow the employment of an attorney for the board; establish the authorities
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agricultural districts. [HB-418]
Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, approval, and withdrawal of property from an agricultural district, and to allow a district board of supervisors to consider possible dissolution of an agricultural district if an owner’s withdrawal of property results in the remaining land no longer qualifying as agricultural land.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 136) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to constables and declaring an emergency. [SB-278]
Amend KRS 16.060 granting all constables powers and immunities; amend KRS 61.310 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 64.060 granting all constables peace officer powers; amend KRS 70.430 removing certification qualification and make a technical correction to reporting requirements; remove reporting and fee sharing requirements with certain local governments; amend KRS 148.056 granting all constable powers within parks and granting equal immunity with sheriffs; amend KRS 277.280, 164.955, 183.881, 230.240, 281.765 and 446.010 to conform; amend
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local government. [HB-296]
Amend KRS 67.410, relating to the fiscal court appointment of building inspectors, to make technical changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the collection of fees in a county containing a consolidated local government. [SB-52]
Amend KRS 64.012 to require the document storage fee to be held in a separate fund by the county clerk in a county containing a consolidated local government; specify uses for the fee revenue; and require reporting; amend KRS 137.115 to require in a county with a consolidated local government that specific license fees be payable to an agency of the consolidated local government as designated by its council.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 189) on 04/11/2023
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to county attorneys. [HB-782]
Amend KRS 66.480 to include county attorneys in county officials who may invest and reinvest money subject to their control.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ed Massey
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 178) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to county audits. [HB-588]
Amend KRS 43.070 to permit counties, county clerks, and county sheriffs to have a certified public accountant conduct an annual audit; provide if a county, county clerk, or county sheriff elects to have the Auditor of Public Accounts conduct the audit, the audit must be completed by August 1 following the calendar year that is the focus of the audit, and by February 1 of the following fiscal year that is the focus of the audit; amend KRS 64.810 to permit a fiscal court, county clerk, or county sheriff to employ a certified public accountant to conduct
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Local Government (h) on 03/22/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to library district boards. [SB-167]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to public library districts to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023; establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Schickel
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 221) on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to library district boards. [HB-480]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to public library districts to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023; establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reapportionment and declaring an emergency. [SB-76]
Require fiscal courts and county school districts to initiate, complete, and publish reapportionment plans on or before January 20, 2022; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnnie Turner
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school bus safety. [HB-221]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define "owner," "code enforcement board," "county," "camera monitoring system," "recorded images," and "stop arm camera violation"; permit the legislative body of a county to enact an ordinance to authorize the use of camera monitoring systems by a local school district and permit the enforcement of a civil penalty for a stop arm camera violation recorded by a camera monitoring system; permit the legislative body of a county to enter into an interlocal agreement to implement and enforce such ordinances; provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Huff
Recommitted To Transportation (s) on 04/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to county reapportionment and declaring an emergency. [HB-212]
Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2023 instead of 2022; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 11) on 02/25/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local reapportionment and declaring an emergency. [HB-566]
Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2022 instead of 2021; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Introduced In House on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging county-level advocacy groups to review the compensation of county officials whose duties are not coextensive with the Commonwealth. [SR-70]
Urge the associations representing county level elected officials whose duties are not coextensive with the Commonwealth to confer and report any identified compensation issues to the Interim Joint Committee on Local Government by November 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Tom Buford
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/10/2021