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Kentucky SB70: University of Louisville Capital Project

2/19/2018

BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE

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
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Kentucky SB118: MEDICAL CANNABIS

2/13/2018

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AN ACT relating medical cannabis.

"I'd rather be illegally alive than legally dead" - Anonymous Cancer Patient on Marijuana Prohibition

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.

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Kentucky HB287: POWERS OF APPOINTMENT

2/13/2018

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(HARRIS, C) AN ACT RELATING TO POWERS OF APPOINTMENT.

Establish KRS Chapter 390 and create new sections thereof to define various terms; specify the governing law over a power of appointment; state that common law supplements this chapter; outline the creation of a power of appointment; prohibit the transfer of a power of appointment; specify general presumptions upon a power of appointment's creation; make an exception to the general presumption about a power of appointment; define "adverse party"; allow a donor to revoke or amend a power of appointment in certain instances; state when a power of appointment may be exercised; provide that a residuary clause manifests a powerholder's intent to exercise a power of appointment; state that a blanket-exercise clause extends to a power acquired by the powerholder after executing the instrument containing the clause; require substantial compliance with a formal requirement of appointment; outline permissible appointments; provide that appointment to a deceased appointee is ineffective and appointment to an impermissible appointee is ineffective; require a powerholder's intent be carried out in cases of selective allocation; establish the procedure for disposition of property ineffectively appointed; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised general power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised nongeneral power; provide for the disposition of unappointed property if partial appointment is to the taker in default; provide for the disposition of property appointed to the taker in default; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend an exercise; allow a powerholder to disclaim a power of appointment or contract to appoint or not appoint any property subject to the power; allow a powerholder to release a power of appointment; state the method in which a powerholder may release a power of appointment; allow a powerholder to revoke or amend a release of power; allow a powerholder of a presently exercisable power of appointment and a not presently exercisable power of appointment to contract; establish a remedy for a powerholder's breach of a contract to appoint or not to appoint appointive property; outline the rights of a powerholder's creditors in appointive property; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is general; state when appointive property is subject to a claim when the power is nongeneral; require uniformity of interpretation and application with regards to other states that have enacted this Act; specify how the enactment of this Act affects existing powers of appointment; provide that KRS Chapter 390 may be known as the Kentucky Uniform Powers of Appointment Act; amend KRS 381.225 to provide that a new perpetuities period may be started when a power of appointment is exercised, if the person exercising the power so provides; amend KRS 381.226 to exclude any interest in property created by the exercise of a special power of appointment granted by an instrument that was irrevocable on September 25, 1985, from being construed as requiring the interests to vest within the period specified in KRS 381.224, 381.225, and 381.226; repeal KRS 386.095, 394.060, and 394.070.

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Kentucky SB70: University of Louisville Capital Project

BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE

Kentucky SB118: MEDICAL CANNABIS

AN ACT relating medical cannabis.

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Kentucky HB287: POWERS OF APPOINTMENT

(HARRIS, C) AN ACT RELATING TO POWERS OF APPOINTMENT.

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