Rep. John Blanton
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to time. [HB-19]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to adopt year-round daylight saving time in the state of Kentucky if authorized by the United States Congress; EFFECTIVE upon the first Sunday of November following passage of enabling legislation by Congress.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Posted In Committee on 01/13/2020
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AN ACT relating to law enforcement officers. [HB-177]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 relating to qualified and complete immunity from civil liability for a law enforcement officer's operation of a vehicle when responding to an emergency or pursuing a suspect.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to 911 services and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-229]
Amend KRS 65.7631, relating to amounts distributed to public safety answering points (PSAPs) for the purposes of answering, routing, and properly disposing of CMRS 911 calls, to remove the qualifier "CMRS."
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 40) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fire protection and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-184]
Amend KRS 95A.520 and 95A.540, relating to volunteer fire department mergers, to make it applicable to volunteer fire departments merging prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to provide that for volunteer fire departments merging after the effective date of the Act, the Fire Commission shall pay to the departments the number of qualified shares of volunteer fire department aid each is entitled to for a period of 20 years after the date of the merger, upon the expiration of which the merged department shall
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-239]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/14/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income. [HB-245]
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to the individual income tax, to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110.
Sponsored by: Rep. Russ Meyer
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 01/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-35]
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110; apply retroactively for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018; require the Department of Revenue to automatically issue refunds; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of certain services. [HB-56]
Amend KRS 139.200 to exclude mowing, fence cleaning, and other pasture maintenance services performed on agricultural or horticultural land for a farmer or retired farmer from landscaping services; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2020.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to death-in-line-of-duty benefits and declaring an emergency. [HB-271]
Amend KRS 16.601 and 61.621 to remove provisions which reduce line of duty or duty-related death benefits upon remarriage; establish non-codified sections to: provide that an eligible surviving spouse who has subsequently remarried shall have their benefit increased; provide that an eligible surviving spouse of a member whose death was determined by the systems to be a direct result of an act in line of duty or a duty-related injury, but chose to receive monthly death benefits in lieu of line of duty benefits, shall receive line of duty or duty-related
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to voluntary non-opioid directives. [HB-11]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and to establish a voluntary non-opioid directive form to inform practitioners that an opioid drug shall not be prescribed, ordered, or administered to a patient who has filed the form with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.172 to require a practitioner to determine if a patient has filed a voluntary non-opioid directive and to provide the patient with a copy of the form prior to prescribing an opioid drug; amend KRS 218A.202 to establish that the electronic monitoring
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020