Sen. George Wise
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District SD-016
Party Republican
Bills Introduced 114
Sponsored Legislation
Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to trafficking in heroin. [SB-115]
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to require that persons who traffic in heroin or fentanyl be charged as Class C felons for the first offense.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
To Judiciary (h) on 02/29/2016
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AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit management. [SB-117]
Create a new section of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 304 to require a pharmacy benefit manager to obtain a license; amend KRS 304.17A-161 to define maximum allowable cost and amend the definition of pharmacy benefit manager; amend KRS 304.17A-162 to provide for an appeal process, price updates, and administrative regulations; require review of the maximum allowable cost at least every 7 instead of 14 days; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish licensure and application requirements for pharmacy benefit managers; require
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts, Ch. 79) on 04/09/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-127]
Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors, beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors, beginning with the 2018-2019 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
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Taken From Rules (s) on 02/01/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships and declaring an emergency. [SB-132]
Amend KRS 45A.030 and 45A.075 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A, the Kentucky Model Procurement Code, to provide an explicit framework for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) as an alternative method of procurement, construction, and financing of capital projects and services by state government; define terms and establish procedures; require the promulgation of administrative regulations relating to P3 procurement; establish certain oversight, reporting, and General Assembly authorization requirements; amend KRS 65.025 and create
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/18/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal fighting. [SB-14]
Amend KRS 525.125 to include the owning, possessing, keeping, breeding, training, selling, or transferring of dogs for fighting purposes within the offense of cruelty to animals in the first degree.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/04/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interstate distance education among postsecondary institutions. [SB-140]
Amend 164.540 to authorize the Council on Postsecondary Education to enter into the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, for the purpose of authorizing a postsecondary institution located in another state to provide distance education to Kentucky residents; serve as the lead or "portal" agency responsible for contact with other states on matters pertaining to interstate reciprocity agreements; promulgate administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts, Ch. 60) on 04/08/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the expression of religious or political viewpoints in public schools and public postsecondary institutions. [SB-15]
Amend KRS 158.183 to permit students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination; require local boards of education to ensure that the selection of student speakers is made in a viewpoint-neutral manner, the student's prepared remarks are not altered before delivery without student's consent, religious and political organizations are allowed equal access to public forums on the same basis as nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations, no recognized religious or political student organization
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julian Carroll
To Education (h) on 02/08/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety. [SB-152]
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion; amend KRS 311.990 to provide a criminal penalty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To Health & Welfare (h) on 03/02/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human services. [SB-155]
Amend KRS 151B.240 to correct the administrative location of the Statewide Independent Living Council.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts, Ch. 32) on 04/04/2016
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Kentucky 2016 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to boat liens. [SB-186]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 376 to allow a marina to enforce a possessory lien on a boat; establish notification requirements for the enforcement of a possessory lien on a boat; establish sale requirements following judgment in favor of a marina to enforce a possessory lien on a boat.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts, Ch. 120) on 04/13/2016