AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship. [SB-109]
Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, to use their KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; require that the funds they would have received as eligible postsecondary students be reduced proportionally over a four-, or in some cases, five-year period by an amount equal to the amount used for dual credit; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform; designate the expenditures as necessary governmental expenses if KEES funds appropriated
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SB-109: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Taken From Education (h) on 03/01/2013
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [SB-129]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit the enforceability of any new federal law, rule, regulation, or order relating to the ownership or registration of certain firearms, magazines, or other firearms accessories; EMERGENCY.
SB-129: AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
Discharge Petition Filed on 03/07/2013
AN ACT relating to water quality. [SB-190]
Create a new section of Subchapter 70 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment cabinet to maintain a list of impaired water identified pursuant to 33.U.S.C.sec. 1313(d) and total maximum daily load effluent limitations; identify the methods, information and rationale for placing the water on the list of impaired waters or the development of a new TMDL; provide notice to those who want to be alerted to waters on the 303(d) list or new total maximum daily load limitations; require the cabinet to take all necessary step to remove restrictions
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SB-190: AN ACT relating to water quality.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
To Natural Resources & Environment (h) on 03/05/2013
AN ACT relating to exemption of religious organizations from the insurance code. [SB-3]
Amend KRS 304.1-120, containing exclusions from the insurance code, to delete the religious publication exclusion and substitute a religious organization exemption; require notice for delivery to all participants that sharing of medical expenses is not insurance and establish notice requirements; delete the requirements that payments shall be made directly from one subscriber to another, that subscriber amounts are voluntary with no assumption of risk or promise to pay, and the verbatim disclaimer statement.
SB-3: AN ACT relating to exemption of religious organizations from the insurance code.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
Signed By Governor (acts Chapter 132) on 04/05/2013
AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators. [SB-7]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to prohibit public employers in the Commonwealth from purchasing, acquiring, furnishing, or requiring an employee to purchase or acquire uniforms, wearing apparel, safety equipment, or protective accessories not manufactured in the United States of America, unless such items are not manufactured or available for purchase in the United States; permit public employers to purchase uniforms and safety equipment manufactured outside the United States if similar items are only available from one United States manufacturer
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SB-7: AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
To State Government (h) on 03/04/2013
AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance. [SB-97]
Amend KRS 159.010 to permit, beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, each local board of education, on the recommendation of the superintendent and approval of the Kentucky Department of Education, to require children residing in the school district's attendance area to attend school until the child has reached his or her eighteenth birthday except as provided in KRS 159.030; amend KRS 159.020 to conform; make technical corrections.
SB-97: AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor (acts Chapter 11) on 03/18/2013