Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Gerald A. Neal · 336 bills · page 10 of 14
- SB 226 AN ACT relating to procurement contracts with small businesses located in historically underutilized business zones. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A, relating to state procurement, to incorporate new preference criteria for small businesses located in historically underutilized business zones. Died
- SB 227 AN ACT relating to voter registration. Amend KRS 116.045 to permit voter preregistration for persons at the minimum age of 16 years; require the Secretary of State to provide assistance and interpretation for preregistration; require the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations to provide for preregistration; amend KRS 116.046 to require county clerks to provide preregistration forms to certain secondary education institutions; amend KRS 116.055 to conform; make technical corrections. Died
- SB 174 AN ACT relating to juries. Amend KRS 15.733 to allow the disqualification of a prosecuting attorney from the retrial of a case due to discriminatory jury selection practices; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and report data on the race, ethnicity, and sex of members of juries. Died
- SB 264 AN ACT relating to historical memorials. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 11 to establish the Kentucky Historical Memorials Act of 2018; define terms; create standards for preservation; establish the Committee on Kentucky Historical Memorials and provide the structure, process, and membership of the committee; establish the duties of the committee; establish a process for any entity who wants to relocate, remove, alter, change, preserve, or rename certain significant properties; require the Division of Historic Properties to promulgate administrative regulations under KRS Chapter 13A for the implementation of this Act; amend KRS 11.026 to conform. Died
- SB 175 AN ACT relating to juries. Amend KRS 29A.040 to add holders of personal identification cards issued within a county to the master list of potential jurors for that county. Died
- SR 147 Honor Elmore "the Rejecter" "Big E" Smith. Died
- SB 118 AN ACT relating to medical cannabis. 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 certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; specify 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; specify 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; establish the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration to enforce the program's provisions; establish requirement that local law enforcement be hired or contracted with for local inspections, investigations, and administrative 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, and health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, 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 the 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 a provisional licensure process; 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 administrative regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action in 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 a medical cannabis trust fund to receive fees, fines, and registration costs and administer and operate the medical cannabis program; require 5% of trust fund moneys to be returned to the compassion centers for the use of certain indigent persons; amend KRS 218A.1421 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1422 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1423 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 12.020 and 12.242 to reflect the creation of the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration. Died
- SR 45 Honor newly elected Bishop, Father J. Mark Spalding. Died
- SR 143 Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community. Died
- SR 363 Honor the collaborative efforts of the Jamon Brown Foundation and the Coalition for the Homeless and their commitment to preventing and eliminating homelessness in the Commonwealth. Died
- SR 311 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of G. Ray Crider. Died
- SR 225 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Juanita McCann Herron. Died
- SR 120 Honor Hazel Calloway on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Died
- SR 313 Celebrate the life of Linda Brown. Died
- SR 275 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent "Van" Warren. Died
- SR 259 Recognize and celebrate Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Michael B. Coleman upon the dedication of the Michael B. Coleman Government Center. Died
- SR 266 Honor Jack Baker and the United States First Army on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the unit; recognize Jack Baker's distinguished military career as a member of First Army, and recognize his accomplishments and contributions to the United States and to the Commonwealth. Died
- SCR 171 Establish the Childhood Cancer Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly. Enacted
- SR 237 Honor Central High School. Died
- SR 141 Recognize February as Black History Month. Died
- SR 238 Recognize March 7, 2018, as Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol. Died
- SR 289 Recognize the victims of unsolved murders and missing persons, and adjourn in honor of their families. Died
- SR 264 Recognize April of 2018 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Died
- SR 56 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald. Died
- SR 23 Memorialize Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens. Died