All Bills - Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB219
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 148.0211 to include gender-neutral pronouns.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB22
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
1/5/23
Amend KRS 156.029 to change the public high school nonvoting student member to a voting member of the Kentucky Board of Education; add an at-large member to the board; require at least two of the members to have a child enrolled in public school; amend KRS 156.040 to exclude the student member from the age and college degree requirements.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB220
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 154.10-040 to add gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB221
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB222
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 148.056 to add gender neutral- language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB223
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB224
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 148.026 to add gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB225
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/2/23
Amend KRS 532.080 to define "violent act against a person"; provide that a jury may fix an enhanced term of imprisonment when they find a defendant to be a persistent felony offender; remove the condition that an offender completed service of the sentence they were imposed within five years prior to the date of the felony that he or she now stands convicted; allow a person who is found to be a persistent felony offender in the first degree who is presently convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony to be eligible for parole if the offense was not violent or a sex crime; prohibit the conviction of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree as a prior felony; amend KRS 439.3405 to conform; RETROACTIVE.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB226
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/1/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/7/23
Refer
3/8/23
Report Pass
3/9/23
Enrolled
3/14/23
Enrolled
3/14/23
Vetoed
3/24/23
Refer
3/29/23
Override
3/29/23
Refer
3/29/23
Override
3/29/23
Enrolled
3/29/23
Enrolled
3/29/23
Chaptered
3/29/23
Passed
3/29/23
Create a new section of Subchapter 16 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet, when issuing permits under the Clean Water Act for discharges into outstanding state resource waters, to presume that water quality will be maintained if the permittee complies with technology-based effluent limitations for its industry or with species-specific protection measures imposed on its operations by another state or federal agency, give substantial weight to evidence that discharges from similar operations have not impacted the same or similar threatened or endangered species, not impose conditions that are more stringent than United States Fish and Wildlife Service requirements to protect a threatened or endangered aquatic organism or habitat, presume that compliance with numeric water quality standards applicable to the discharge shall constitute compliance with narrative water quality standards applicable to outstanding state resources waters that support threatened or endangered species; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to clearly document its compliance with the requirements of the section in the fact sheet for the permit; provide that failure to clearly and adequately document compliance with the requirements of the section shall result in a stay in permit conditions for permits based on a narrative water quality standard for an outstanding state resource water upon the filing of a petition for an administrative hearing; amend KRS 224.10-225 to allow an applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation operation to request for one stop shopping for environmental permits; provide that failure of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to adhere to the timelines for Clean Water Act permitting issuances shall constitute the making of a final determination, which shall allow the applicant to initiate an action in the Circuit Court for the county where the surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located or initiate an administrative hearing; define surface coal mining operations; amend KRS 224.16-050 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet, when making a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification, to notify an applicant within 30 days of receiving an application if the application is incomplete; provide that if the application is incomplete, allow the applicant an additional 30 days to complete the application; provide that after receiving a complete application, the Energy and Environment Cabinet shall make a certification determination within 60 days; provide that if the certification determination is not made within 60 days, then the certification requirements are waived unless a time extension is otherwise agreed upon; provide that Clean Water Act Section 401 certifications shall be limited to water quality impacts from the discharge only; strike the requirement that the Governor must make a finding that the permitted activity would be in the best interests of the Commonwealth before the Energy and Environment Cabinet could engage in permitting and certification for the activity; prohibit the Energy and Environment Cabinet from delaying the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit based on the need or receipt of any other federal, state, or local permit or certification.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB227
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 189A.010 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB228
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/9/23
Engrossed
3/13/23
Refer
3/13/23
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB229
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
2/28/23
Engrossed
3/3/23
Refer
3/3/23
Refer
3/10/23
Report Pass
3/14/23
Refer
3/15/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Amend KRS 620.030 to remove the requirement that a supervisor make an additional report to the proper authorities regarding a report made to them of suspected abuse; require an oral report of child abuse and notification of a supervisor; add the requirement that a supervisor cooperate with the investigation of a report; amend KRS 620.040 to require an agency that is the reporting source to notify other involved agencies; amend KRS 620.072 to allow the cabinet to choose announced or unannounced visits following alleged child abuse reports.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB23
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/14/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to require that a risk-limiting audit be performed upon the closing of the polls in order to certify the election; amend KRS 117.001 to change the definition of "risk-limiting audit"; amend KRS 117.275 to include additional requirements for the counting and tabulation of ballots and for the certification of election results; amend KRS 117.066 and 117.295 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB230
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of animal care costs by owner; establish penalties; prohibit the destruction of seized animals, except for humane reasons determined by veterinarian; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB231
Introduced
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/2/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/7/23
Amend KRS 91A.370 to add the president and chief executive officer of the Kentucky State Fair Board to the tourist and convention commission in counties containing a city of the first class or consolidated local government; EMERGENCY.