Kentucky 2017 Regular Session Status: Passed House

HB 281 — AN ACT relating to government contracts. Create a new section of KRS 45A.690 to 45A.725 to establish standards and rules for the Attorney General when awarding contingency fee personal service contracts for legal services; require the Attorney General to make written findings of the need for a contingency fee contract; set limits on the amount of the contingency fee; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to post information regarding the contract on its Web site; require the contractor to maintain certain records; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Attorney General to submit a report on all contingency fee contracts to the Government Contract Review Committee by September 1 of each year; amend KRS 45A.695 to require the Attorney General to participate in discussions with contingency fee offerors to determine their qualifications; amend KRS 15.100 to conform.

Last action — Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2017 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Action History

  1. Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)

  2. To Rules (H)

  3. Received in House

  4. 3rd reading, passed 26-12 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)

  5. Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017

  6. Reported favorably, to Rules with committee amendment (1-title) and Committee Substitute

  7. Returned to Judiciary (S)

  8. 2nd reading

  9. Taken from Judiciary (S)

  10. Returned to Judiciary (S)

  11. 1st reading

  12. Taken from Judiciary (S)

  13. To Judiciary (S)

  14. Received in Senate

  15. 3rd reading, passed 62-32 with floor amendment (5)

  16. Floor amendment (5) filed

  17. Floor amendment (4) filed

  18. Floor amendments (2) and (3) filed

  19. Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017

  20. 2nd reading, to Rules

  21. Floor amendment (1) filed

  22. Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar

  23. Posted in committee

  24. To Judiciary (H)

  25. Introduced in House

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