Sen. Jimmy Higdon
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transportation and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-4]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 174 to establish the Kentucky Transportations Board; set forth membership, appointment, qualifications, and duties; outline board duties in relation to nomination and employment of the Transportation Cabinet secretary; require the board to establish a statewide prioritization process for the use of funds apportioned pursuant to 23 U.S.C. sec. 104, with some exceptions; identify 5 factors that form the basis for the objective scoring: congestion mitigation, economic development, accessibility. safety, and asset
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AN ACT relating to newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). [SB-60]
Amend KRS 214.155 to add spinal muscular atrophy to the list of heritable conditions tested at birth.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights. [SB-62]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to grant persons convicted of a felony other than a sex offense, a violent offense, or an offense against a child, the right to vote five years after completion of sentence; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for Lyme disease. [SB-61]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plan coverage of long-term antibiotic therapy for covered persons with Lyme disease under certain circumstances; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school programs. [SB-63]
Amend KRS 158.100 to include virtual high school completion programs, give local board authority to establish program, identify the purpose of such programs, outline enrollment eligibility requirements, identify graduation requirements for enrollees of the program, authorize schools to charge students tuition and fees for the program, require that an enrollee in the program be at least 21 years old, establish school requirements for eligibility, and allow a district to choose between requiring completion of graduation requirements at the time of
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing Walker Montgomery. [SR-32]
Recognize Walker Montgomery.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION recognizing the bicentennial of New Haven, Kentucky. [SJR-36]
Recognize the bicentennial of New Haven, Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of born-alive infants and abortion and declaring an emergency. [SB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of nourishment with the intent to cause or allow the death of the infant; prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of medically appropriate and reasonable medical care, medical treatment, or surgical care; require a physician performing an abortion to take all medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of a born-alive infant; specify that if the physician is unable to perform those duties
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of George Louis Tapp. [SR-45]
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of George Louis Tapp.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Legislators' Retirement Plan and declaring an emergency. [SB-6]
Amend KRS 6.525 to provide that non-legislative compensation earned in another state-administered retirement system on or after July 1, 2020, shall not be used to calculate benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan; EMERGENCY.