Sen. Whitney Westerfield
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Kentucky 2013 Special Session
Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation. [SR-4]
Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation.
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Gettr Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the publication of local government legal advertisements. [SB-101]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 424 giving local governments the option to post required advertisements online on a notice Web site operated by local government in lieu of newspaper publication, so long as one-time advertisement is published in actual newspaper; specify requirements for advertisements published on Internet Web site and in actual newspaper; specify rights of public and duties of local government; set out consequences of local government's failure to publish as required by law; provide penalty.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to intellectual property. [SB-116]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to establish a bad-faith assertion of patent infringement as a violation of Kentucky's consumer protection chapter and authorize the utilization of the remedies available for those violations in addition to private remedies established in the bill.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drugs and declaring an emergency. [SB-124]
Amend KRS 218A.010 to exempt from the definition of "marijuana" drugs used in FDA-approved studies or compassionate use programs and the substance cannabidiol when recommended by a physician practicing at a state research hospital.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medical practice. [SB-134]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Board Medical Licensure to design a program to ensure that a physician offers testimony in accord with his or her professional knowledge of skills; create an expert witness certificate program for individuals who submit certain documents; require that individuals testifying as expert medical witnesses be certified by this program before their testimony may be admitted as expert testimony; clarify that the certificate shall only permit an individual to testify and not practice medicine; state
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the issuance of legal process. [SB-138]
Amend KRS 454.210 to allow a court clerk to electronically transmit court process to the Secretary of State when that office is responsible for service of process.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activity participation of students enrolled in private schools. [SB-161]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by a private school student when the private school does not offer the interscholastic extracurricular activity; establish criteria for participation therein.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drug-addicted or dependent newborns. [SB-162]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A that mandates priority access for pregnant women to substance abuse treatment or recovery service programs, while preventing discrimination against pregnant women by substance abuse treatment or recovery service providers, and providing practitioners civil immunity for failing to recognize controlled substance abuse by a pregnant patient or referring a pregnant patient to substance abuse treatment or recovery services consistent with community standards of care; amend KRS 625.050 to prevent the filing of
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to trade and commerce. [SB-179]
Amend KRS 257.160 to include bees and hives in the livestock and poultry disease control disposal protocols.
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Kentucky 2014 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Court of Justice. [SB-180]
Amend KRS 21A.070 to require that opinions of the Supreme Court be made available to the public without cost online.