Rep. Phillip Pratt
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transfer of county jail inmates. [HB-120]
Amend KRS 441.520 to require a judicial removal order cite danger for order of removal, establish incarceration rates and medical costs, impose geographic limits for removal, place liability for transfers upon the Administrative Office of the Courts, require that in all other removal orders the judge shall receive the written agreement of the originating and receiving jailer, establish the details of written agreement, establish criteria for cost and transportation, and require judge to review removal orders every 90 days for safety and security
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Posting Withdrawn on 02/24/2020
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AN ACT relating to the Bowling Green Veterans Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-24]
Appropriate to the Department of Veterans' Affairs $2,500,000 from the General Fund in fiscal year 2019-2020 for design and preconstruction costs for the Bowling Green Veterans Center; stipulate that appropriations in this Act shall be paid from the General Fund Surplus Account or the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 7) on 03/10/2020
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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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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to direct sellers. [HB-186]
Amend KRS 337.010 to exclude direct sellers from the definition of employee in regards to payment of wages; amend KRS 342.650 to exempt direct sellers from coverage in regards to workers’ compensation; amend KRS 341.055 to exclude direct sellers from “covered employment” in regards to unemployment compensation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 2) on 02/11/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tax rebates for certain state-owned facilities. [HB-187]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139, which provides definitions for the section, and states that certain state agencies may receive a sales tax rebate of up to 100% of sales tax generated by the sales of tangible personal property at a public facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 01/09/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recognition and registration of professional employer organizations. [HB-53]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to declare that professional employer organizations provide a valuable service to commerce and should be properly recognized and regulated; define "client," "co-employer," "co-employment relationship," "covered employee," "professional employer organization group," "person," "professional employer agreement," "professional employer organization," "professional employer services," "registrant," and "temporary help service"; indicate that covered employees shall be deemed employees of the client for purposes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Recommitted To Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 02/04/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interpersonal violence. [HB-216]
Amend KRS 403.720 to include violence against an animal used as coercive conduct in the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 403.740 to allow a judge to award possession of a domestic animal to the petitioner; amend KRS 456.010 to include violence against an animal used as coercive conduct in the definition of "dating violence and abuse"; amend KRs 456.060 to allow a judge to award possession of a domestic animal to the petitioner.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (s) on 03/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to torture of a dog or cat. [HB-223]
Amend KRS 525.135, relating to torture of a dog or cat, to specify certain acts of torture; increase punishment to Class D felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. Russ Meyer
To Judiciary (h) on 01/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human trafficking. [HB-183]
Amend KRS 17.500 to add a felony offense of KRS 529.100 or 529.110 involving commercial sexual activity to the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 183 to require airports to post the hotline number of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center in all restrooms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to require truck stops to post the hotline number of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center in all restrooms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
Posting Withdrawn on 02/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hemp and declaring an emergency. [HB-236]
Amend KRS 250.355 to allow the Department of Agriculture to establish hemp testing procedures; create a new section of KRS 260.850 to 260.869 to set forth requirements for the transportation of hemp or hemp products; amend KRS 260.850 and 260.852, 260.860, 260.864, and 260.866 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 260.858 to specify unlawful conduct; amend KRS 260.862 to specify licensure requirements; repeal KRS 260.867; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 1) on 02/10/2020