Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Stephen West · 263 bills · page 8 of 11
- SB 270 AN ACT relating to dyslexia. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "dyslexia" and "evidence-based"; require the Department of Education to make available a dyslexia toolkit that includes guidance on the instruction of students displaying characteristics of dyslexia; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Education Professional Standards Board and the Council on Postsecondary Education to update professional development for teachers related to dyslexia; require each local board of education to develop policies for identifying and assisting students in kindergarten through grade three with dyslexia and other learning disabilities; require school districts to report data to the Department of Education regarding dyslexia screening and results; require teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia; require the commissioner of education to select three school districts to participate in a study project; this may be cited as the Ready to Read Act. Died
- SR 147 Honor Elmore "the Rejecter" "Big E" Smith. Died
- SB 98 AN ACT relating to entertainment destination center licenses. Amend KRS 243.030 to create a new entertainment destination center license for counties not containing a consolidated local government or an urban-county government. Enacted
- SR 75 Honor Kelly Craft upon being named United States Ambassador to Canada. 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 143 Honor the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting and offer encouragement and support to the entire Marshall County community. Died
- SR 225 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Juanita McCann Herron. Died
- SR 275 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vincent "Van" Warren. Died
- SB 139 AN ACT relating to deeds to real property. Amend KRS 382.135 to describe the requisite "full name" for an grantor and grantee when recording a deed to real property and direct that the record is still notice and admissible as evidence if the instrument is not in compliance with the provisions as set out in this section. Enacted
- 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 141 Recognize February as Black History Month. Died
- SR 289 Recognize the victims of unsolved murders and missing persons, and adjourn in honor of their families. Died
- SR 267 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gordon E. Brown. Died
- SR 264 Recognize April of 2018 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Died
- SR 126 Honor Dr. H. Randy Steele. Died
- SR 56 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Richard J. FitzGerald. Died
- SR 23 Memorialize Lynne Marlene Klingeman Givens. Died
- SR 304 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Scotty Hamilton. Died
- SR 355 Honor Senator Joe Bowen upon his retirement from the Senate. Died
- SR 148 Honor Travis "Machine" Grant. Died
- SB 30 AN ACT relating to crime victims' rights. Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend various sections of the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights to change statutory definition of "victim"; require that restitution to the victim be made when possible; repeal KRS 421.540; provide for a delayed contingent effective date of November 6, 2018, upon ratification of a proposed constitutional amendment providing protection of crime victims' rights. Enacted
- SR 265 Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Pearse Lyons. Died
- SR 220 Honor Rachael Denhollander. Died
- SR 63 Recognize January 16th as National Religious Freedom Day. Died