Rep. Kimberly Banta
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools. [HB-22]
Create a new section of KRS 158.440 to 158.449 to define "corporal punishment"; prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 503.110 to remove the exception that permitted the use of physical force by a teacher against a minor.
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AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-137]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet, “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator," “fantasy contest participant", “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to torture of a dog or cat. [HB-223]
Amend KRS 525.135, relating to torture of a dog or cat, to specify certain acts of torture; increase punishment to Class D felony.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to abortion. [HB-67]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to state that Kentucky's Constitution does not secure or protect a right to abortion or funding of abortion.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental illness. [HB-237]
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interpersonal violence. [HB-216]
Amend KRS 403.720 to include violence against an animal used as coercive conduct in the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 403.740 to allow a judge to award possession of a domestic animal to the petitioner; amend KRS 456.010 to include violence against an animal used as coercive conduct in the definition of "dating violence and abuse"; amend KRs 456.060 to allow a judge to award possession of a domestic animal to the petitioner.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription insulin. [HB-12]
Amend KRS 304-17A.148 to cap the cost sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30 day supply; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to changing beneficiaries after retirement in state-administered retirement systems. [HB-104]
Amend KRS 61.542 to allow a retiree who experiences a qualifying event, including marriage, remarriage, the birth or adoption of a child, or the death of a designated beneficiary, to elect to change his or her beneficiary and optional payment plan provided the election is made within 120 days of the qualifying event on a form prescribed by the Kentucky Retirement Systems and provide that in the case of a divorce, annulment, or dissolution of marriage, the retiree's estate shall become the beneficiary; amend KRS 61.590, 61.615, and 61.630 to conform;
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Severe Mental Illness Task Force. [HCR-49]
Create the Severe Mental Illness Task Force to study the provision of mental health services to adults with a severe mental illness; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2020 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2020.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to grants of legal authority by individuals. [HB-154]
Establish KRS Chapter 390 and create new sections thereof to define various terms; specify the governing law over a power of appointment; state that common law supplements this chapter; outline the creation of a power of appointment; prohibit the transfer of a power of appointment; specify general presumptions upon a power of appointment's creation; make an exception to the general presumption about a power of appointment; define "adverse party"; allow a donor to revoke or amend a power of appointment in certain instances; state when a power of
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