AN ACT proposing to create a new section of The Constitution of Kentucky relating to crime victims' rights. Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to create a crime victims' bill of rights; submit to voters.

AMENDMENTS
SB 3 (As Introduced)
     SCS1 - Retain original provisions; clarify provisions relating to restitution in juvenile cases.

     Jan 02, 2018 - introduced in Senate
     Jan 03, 2018 - to State & Local Government (S)
     Jan 08, 2018 - taken from State & Local Government (S); 1st reading; returned to State & Local Government (S)
     Jan 09, 2018 - taken from State & Local Government (S); 2nd reading; returned to State & Local Government (S)
     Jan 10, 2018 - reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1); posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 10, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 34-1 with Committee Substitute (1); received in House
     Jan 16, 2018 - to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
     Jan 17, 2018 - posted in committee
     Jan 22, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Jan 23, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 24, 2018
     Jan 24, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 87-3
     Jan 25, 2018 - enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House; delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 1)
Vote History

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a person with a disability or disability-related needs to make a reasonable request for an accomodation in housing to maintain an assistance animal; allow a person receiving a request to ask for documentation on the assistance animal; provide penalties for the offense of misrepresentation of an assistance animal.

     Feb 08, 2018 - introduced in House
     Feb 12, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
     Feb 16, 2018 - posted in committee
     Feb 21, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
     Feb 22, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, February 23, 2018
     Feb 23, 2018 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day

​ 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.



     Jan 10, 2018 - introduced in House
     Jan 16, 2018 - to Judiciary (H)
     Feb 08, 2018 - posted in committee

Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or body part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act may be known as Courtney's Law.

     Dec 08, 2017 - Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
     Jan 02, 2018 - introduced in House; to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
     Jan 05, 2018 - posted in committee
     Jan 10, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
     Jan 11, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Jan 16, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 17, 2018
     Jan 17, 2018 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
     Jan 29, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 88-0
     Jan 30, 2018 - received in Senate
     Jan 31, 2018 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
     Feb 13, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 14, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Feb 15, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 15, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 33-0
     Feb 16, 2018 - received in House; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
     Feb 20, 2018 - enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; delivered to Governor
Vote History

  AN ACT relating to jail canteens.
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     Amend KRS 441.135 to allow jail canteen profits to be used for the enhancement of jail safety and security.


AMENDMENTS
HB 92 (As Introduced)
     SCS1 - Retain original provisions; declare an EMERGENCY.
     SCA1( J. Bowen ) - Make title amendment.

     Jan 02, 2018 - introduced in House
     Jan 04, 2018 - to Local Government (H)
     Jan 08, 2018 - posted in committee
     Jan 10, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
     Jan 11, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Jan 16, 2018 - posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 17, 2018
     Jan 17, 2018 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
     Jan 18, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 88-0
     Jan 19, 2018 - received in Senate
     Jan 22, 2018 - to State & Local Government (S)
     Feb 07, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with committee amendments (1-title) Committee Substitute (1)
     Feb 08, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Feb 13, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 13, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 34-2 with committee amendment (1-title) Committee Substitute (1); received in House; to Rules (H)
     Feb 14, 2018 - posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)
     Feb 15, 2018 - House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title); passed 89-0; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
     Feb 20, 2018 - enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; delivered to Governor
Vote History

Amend KRS 121.015 to include within the definition of "caucus campaign committee," subdivisions of a state executive committee of a minor political party, which serve the same function as a caucus campaign committee, as determined by regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.

     Jan 08, 2018 - introduced in House
     Jan 10, 2018 - to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
     Jan 17, 2018 - posted in committee
     Jan 22, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
     Jan 23, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 24, 2018
     Jan 24, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 92-0
     Jan 25, 2018 - received in Senate
     Jan 26, 2018 - to State & Local Government (S)
     Jan 31, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 01, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules
     Feb 05, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 5, 2018; 3rd reading, passed 36-0
     Feb 06, 2018 - received in House; enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House; enrolled, signed by President of the Senate; delivered to Governor
     Feb 19, 2018 - became law without Governor's Signature
     Feb 20, 2018 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
Vote History

SB 70/FN (BR 452) - C. McDaniel

     AN ACT authorizing a University of Louisville Capital Project, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

     Authorize and appropriate $8,000,000 for the construction of a television broadcast/production studio at the University of Louisville; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

     Jan 08, 2018 - introduced in Senate; to Appropriations & Revenue (S); taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S); 1st reading; returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
     Jan 09, 2018 - reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
     Jan 10, 2018 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 11, 2018
     Jan 11, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 34-0
     Jan 16, 2018 - received in House
     Jan 18, 2018 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
     Jan 19, 2018 - posted in committee
     Jan 23, 2018 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Jan 24, 2018 - 2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 25, 2018
     Jan 25, 2018 - 3rd reading, passed 86-4
     Jan 26, 2018 - received in Senate; enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
     Jan 29, 2018 - enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House; delivered to Governor
     Feb 09, 2018 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
     Feb 10, 2018 - became law without Governor's Signature Acts, ch. 02
Vote History