Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Jim Gooch Jr. · 239 bills · page 7 of 10
- HB 322 AN ACT relating to planning and zoning enforcement action appeals. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 allowing a party to recover court costs and reasonable attorney's fees when appealing an action of an enforcement officer, or underlying zoning regulation or ordinance that results in a monetary penalty, is finally found to be arbitrary, unenforceable, or unconstitutional. Died
- HR 49 Urge the United States Congress to support federal legislation in advancement of the Appalachian Storage Hub. Died
- HB 229 AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gaming. Amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define and permit casino gaming; provide for the oversight and control of casino gaming by an administrative body funded by license fees and taxes levied on casino gaming; prior to July 1, 2038, require 100% of the casino gaming proceeds, in excess of the amount used to pay for an oversight administrative body of casino gaming, to go to the retirement systems. Died
- HB 267 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. Amend KRS 243.075 to allow all wet cities and counties containing wet cities through a local option election to impose a regulatory license fee on the sale of alcoholic beverages. Died
- HB 175 AN ACT relating to entities registered with the Secretary of State. Amend KRS 14A.1-070 to define "veteran" and "veteran-owned business"; create a new section of Subchapter 2 of KRS Chapter 14A to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying filing fees to the Secretary of State's office for filing various business documents; amend KRS 14A.2-060 to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying the filing fee for annual reports and amended annual reports for four years after the initial registration of the business. Died
- HB 432 AN ACT relating to economic development oversight and declaring an emergency. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Economic Development Incentive Review Board; define relevant terms; describe board membership; describe board procedures; describe board's authority; outline board responsibilities; grant power to collect data from state agencies; EMERGENCY. Died
- HB 448 AN ACT relating to reliable energy portfolio standards. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to declare the intent of the Act to be to maintain reliable electricity generation; define "reliable energy" to mean electricity generated from a source that is always available on site or is delivered in advance and stored on site with the retail electric supplier and define other terms; require retail electricity suppliers to incrementally increase the percentage of reliable energy that they provide to consumers from 70% in 2020, to 72.5% in 2023, and to 75% in 2026; specify what type of generation may be attributable to compliance with the reliability requirements of the Act; beginning on January 1, 2019, require each retail electric supplier to file a biennial implementation plan with the Public Service Commission; beginning on January 1, 2021, require each retail electric supplier to submit an annual report with the Public Service Commission; require the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the form, submission, and information to be contained in the report; beginning September 1, 2026, require the Public Service Commission to submit a report every five years to the Legislative Research Commission that includes the information gathered from the reports it received from the retail electric suppliers. Died
- HB 44 AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the election of appellate judges. Propose to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky to fill terms of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals by appointment by the Governor from a list of three nominees provided by the judicial nominating commission; provide for appointed justices and judges who seek additional terms to stand for elections in their districts; limit individuals to two full terms of office; schedule transitional provisions; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval. Died
- HB 554 AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. Establish a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that, at each school without a school resource or security officer, the local board shall implement an emergency response team; establish requirements for members of an emergency response team; require a local board of education to adopt policies and procedures for an emergency response team; provide some civil liability protections to the local board and emergency response team members; limit applicability of the section; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish a process for certifying instructors in providing school safety training; establish minimum requirements of the process; require the department to develop curriculum and requirements for school safety certification trainings, which may be provided by certified trainers; require completion of a psychological suitability screening for certification applicants; allow certifications in school safety to be valid for one year; establish certification renewal requirements; allow the department to establish a fee for certifications; allow the department to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 527.070 to include members of a school's emergency response team among these permitted to carry firearms on school grounds pursuant to the written policies and authorization of the local board of education; declare an EMERGENCY. Died
- HB 191 AN ACT relating to consumer protection in eye care. Amend KRS 367.680 to define terms; amend KRS 367.681 to add requirements for prescriptions for visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.683 and 367.684 to make applicable to all contact lens and visual aid glasses sellers and dispensers; amend KRS 367.685 to require fitting based on ocular health; amend KRS 367.686 and 367.687 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to set requirements for performance and operation of assessment mechanisms for contact lenses and visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.688 and 367.690 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; increase the fine for violations to $11,000; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to provide that those sections may be cited as the Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act; APPROPRIATION. Enacted
- HB 43 AN ACT relating to appellate judges. Amend KRS 118A.110 to define "retention election" for appellate judges; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118A to create an election process for retaining appointed appellate judges, following the ratification of a constitutional amendment to provide for appointments of appellate judges; amend KRS 118A.020, 118A.030, 118A.060, 118A.100, and 118A.140 to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 21A.020 to set staggered terms for appellate judges; EFFECTIVE contingently on January 1, 2020. Died
- HR 337 Urge the 2018 Program Review and Investigations Committee to investigate the KentuckyWired Project. Died
- HR 44 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Fern Adkins. Died
- HR 229 Recognize March 8, 2018, as International Women's Day. Died
- HR 99 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Rebecca Clements Abell. Died
- HB 372 AN ACT relating to protections of religious organizations. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to set forth legislative findings; define "discriminatory actions," "religious organization," "state benefit program," and "state government"; set forth those religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by the Act; restrict state government from taking discriminatory actions against religious organizations for certain actions; allow a person to assert a claim against state government as a defense against certain discriminatory actions; require that a person assert a claim within two years; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunities except those of liability under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution; declare that the protections of free exercise of religious beliefs afforded are in addition to protections under federal and state law and federal and state constitutions; specify that if any application or provisions of the Act that is held invalid under the law, the remainder of the Act and application of its provisions shall not be affected. Died
- HB 261 AN ACT relating to mining. Amend KRS 13B.020 to exempt explosives and blasting hearings conducted under KRS 351.315 to 351.375 from the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 350.0301 to remove the requirement that proposed civil penalty amounts for suspected violations of surface coal mining and reclamation requirements be placed into an escrow account prior to a formal hearing; amend KRS 350.064 to remove the discretion of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to allow surface coal mining and reclamation permit applicants to submit their own reclamation bonds without separate sureties; amend KRS 350.070 to remove the ability to apply for a major revision to a permit in the event that an underground mining extension area is not on an incidental boundary and does not include planned subsidence; remove the maximum acreage allowance allowed to be added by an incidental boundary revision for underground mining operations; create a new section of KRS 350.240 to 350.280 to establish the requirements for a permit exemption for personal, noncommercial mining of vein minerals; amend KRS 350.300 to conform; amend KRS 350.518 to conform; amend KRS 350.990 to direct that civil penalties collected for violations of KRS Chapter 350 over $800,000 for a fiscal year be transferred to the Department for Natural Resources' Commissioner's Office restricted fund account to be used for the purposes set out in KRS Chapters 350, 351, and 352; amend KRS 351.090 to remove the reference to mine safety specialist qualifications required by KRS 351.060; amend KRS 351.182 to conform; amend KRS 351.315 to require that blasting license revocation hearings be held before the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings instead of being held under the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 351.345 also to require that blasting license revocation hearings be held before the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of Administrative Hearings instead of being held under the requirements of KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 351.350 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Office of General Counsel, instead of the Attorney General, to bring actions for recovery of penalties and restraining orders for violations of KRS 351.315 to 351.375; amend KRS 352.170 to add lighters and vaping apparatuses to the list of prohibited items in an underground mine; amend KRS 352.180 to change the reporting requirements to the Department for Natural Resources for mining accidents; repeal KRS 351.380. Enacted
- HB 370 AN ACT relating to property redevelopment. Amend KRS 224.1-512 to redefine "remediation" and "site"; amend KRS 224.1-514 to update the application requirements, application fee, and public notice; replace a covenant not to sue with a corrective action liability agreement; amend KRS 224.1-516 to reduce the time for cabinet to notify applicant on the status of the application from 45 days to 30 days and update requirements for resubmittal; amend KRS 224.1-520 to specify the statutes that will be used to evaluate whether the site characterization plan is in conformity; delete detailed requirements for the corrective action plan; amend KRS 224.1-522 to include public comment period before taking action on the corrective action plan; delete the time frames associated with additional information submittals; amend KRS 224.1-524 to require notice for public comment to days after submitting corrective action plan and post signage; amend KRS 224.1-526 to deletes language referring to reimbursement of costs for cabinet site investigation; change covenant not to sue to correction action liability agreement; require the corrective action liability agreement to run with the land; amend KRS 224.1-528 to delete cabinet withdrawal from negotiations from the list of final determinations; make conforming changes; repeal KRS 224.1-518. Enacted
- HB 166 AN ACT relating to medical cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish protections for cardholders; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; clarify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; clarify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; require establishment of a Cannabis Enforcement Program by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to enforce the department's duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, single-serving limits for THC content, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action with the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish excise taxes of 10% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling directly to a compassion center; establish excise taxes of 5% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling to a distributor; establish excise taxes of 5% for a distributor selling to a compassion center; direct that 80% of revenues go to the administration of the medical cannabis trust fund for the operation of the Cannabis Enforcement Program; direct that 20% of revenues go to the local medical cannabis trust fund for enforcement of medical cannabis laws, medical cannabis licensing, hiring of drug recognition experts, local evidence-based drug rehabilitation projects, or educational activities within local jails; establish the medical cannabis trust fund and the local cannabis trust fund; APPROPRIATION. Died
- HB 198 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. Enacted
- HR 236 Celebrate Girl Scout Day. Died
- HR 295 Honor Fred Clem. Died
- HR 326 Honor Jim DeCesare upon his retirement from the House of Representatives. Died
- HR 306 Honor Representative Rick Nelson upon his retirement from the House of Representatives. Died
- HR 319 Honor Jody Richards upon his retirement from the House of Representatives. Died