Kentucky 2018 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 5 R · 1 D cosponsors

HB 6 — AN ACT relating to the establishment of a tax credit to promote investments in rural Kentucky businesses and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish a new tax credit against the taxes imposed on insurance companies and financial institutions, for contributions made by them into rural growth funds which make investments in certain businesses principally operating in certain areas of the state; declare findings and the purpose of the credit; define terms; require an entity to follow a process to apply for certification as a rural growth fund, and for investors in that entity to receive tax credits awarded by the Department of Revenue; allow the department to issue $60,000,000 in tax credits; provide credit sunset terms and other conditions for participating in the program and for claiming the credit; provide for revocation of tax credits; allow the department to audit rural growth funds; limit any liability of the Commonwealth in regard to rural growth funds or investments made by them; require various reports to be filed with the department and the Legislative Research Commission to enable evaluations of the credit program; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Kentucky Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2018.

Last action — Floor amendments (9-title) and (10) filed, (11) filed to Committee Substitute

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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 2018 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This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis.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. Floor amendments (9-title) and (10) filed, (11) filed to Committee Substitute

  2. Floor amendmenst (7) and (8) filed to Committee Substitute

  3. Floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4) and (6) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (5) filed

  4. Reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute & committee amendment (1-title)

  5. Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  6. 1st reading

  7. Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  8. To Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  9. Received in Senate

  10. Passed 76-9 with floor amendment (2)

  11. Floor amendment (1) reconsidered

  12. Floor amendment (1) adopted

  13. 3rd reading

  14. Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 15, 2018

  15. 2nd reading, to Rules

  16. Floor amendments (1) and (2) filed

  17. Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar

  18. Posted in committee

  19. To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

  20. Introduced in House

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16 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 122 not signed on

Sponsors (16)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (122)

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 6?
HB 6 is sponsored by R. Nelson, M. Prunty, R. Rothenburger, J. Sims Jr, T. Couch, A. Hatton, R. Heath, D. St. Onge, R. Webber, S. Westrom, Chris Fugate (Republican), George Brown Jr. (Democrat), John Blanton (Republican), Kimberly Poore Moser (Republican), Mary Beth Imes (Republican), and David Hale (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 6?
This bill died with 2018 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.
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